human
Catriona, said I,
gpt
I am in a very painful situation; or rather, so we are both; and I would be a good deal obliged to you if you would promise to let me speak through first of all, and not to interrupt till I have done.
human
Well, said I,
gpt
I will look neither back nor forward, she interrupted.
human
Tell me the one thing: this is my father's doing?
gpt
He approves of it, said I.
human
He approved that I should ask your hand in marriage,
gpt
He told you to! she cried.
human
It is no sense denying it, you said yourself that there was nothing farther from your thoughts. He told you to.
gpt
He spoke of it the first, if that is what you mean,