human
If I cannot be a hermit, I am going to become a nun. What would you say, if you saw me enter a convent to-morrow?
gpt
I should say that you would leave it the day after to-morrow.
human
You have no confidence in my resolutions?
gpt
When they are unwise, no.
human
I can only form unwise ones, according to you?
gpt
According to me, you waltz admirably. When a person waltzes as you do, it's an art, almost a virtue.
human
Is it customary to flatter one's friends?
gpt
I am not flattering you. I never speak a single word to you that I have not carefully weighed, and that is not the most earnest expression of my thought. I am a serious man, madam.
human
It does not seem so when you are with me. I verily believe, however, you have undertaken to make me hate laughter as much as I used to like it.
gpt
I do not understand you.
human
How do you think I look to-night?
gpt
Dazzling!
human
That's too much! I know that I am not handsome.
gpt
I don't say you are handsome, but you are extremely graceful.
human
That's better; and it must be true, for I feel it. The Malabar Widow is really handsome.
gpt
Yes, I should like to see her at the funeral pile.
human
To jump into it with her?
gpt
Exactly.
human
Do you expect to leave soon?
gpt
Next week, I believe.
human
Will you come and see me in Paris?
gpt
If you will allow me.
human
No, I don't allow you.
gpt
And why not? great heavens!
human
In the first place, I don't think I am going back to Paris myself.
gpt
That's a good reason. And where do you expect to go, madam?
human
I don't know. Let us make a pedestrian tour somewhere, you and I together; will you?
gpt
I should like nothing better. When shall we start?