human
But I could have done it so much better--! so much more easily--! without----
gpt
I could have done that too. Mr. Conquest pointed it out to me. He took no advantage of my ignorance. As a matter of fact, I wasn't ignorant at all. I was extremely clear-sighted and wise. My love for you made me so. I knew--I felt it--that money might fail to do what I wanted. But I knew too that there was one thing that wouldn't fail. If you were innocent--and I wasn't wholly sure that you were--I knew there was one energy that would surely prove you so--and that was Charles Conquest's desire to have me as his wife. I took the course in which there was least risk of failure--and you see----
human
What I see is this, Ford answered, thickly,
gpt
Degradation? That's a hard word. But as applied to me--I don't know what it means.
human
Isn't it degradation?--to enter into a marriage in which you put no love?
gpt
I'm to hold my life at the cost of your degradation
human
You may call it degradation if you choose. I shouldn't. As long as you go free, you can call my action anything you like. I dare say, she admitted,
gpt
she cried, as he made as though he would approach her,