human
Mon Dieu! my child, he said,
gpt
I have wounded your feelings! Allow me to tender you my sincere apologies.
human
Keep your apologies to yourself! she said, in a hoarse voice, opening her eyes wide at the same time.
gpt
I have no need of your apologies any more than of your lessons! Your lessons! What have I done to deserve such a humiliation? I cannot understand. What is there more innocent than my words, and what do you expect me to tell you? Is it my fault if I am here alone with you! if I am compelled to speak to you?--if I know not what to say? Why am I exposed to such things? Why ask me more than I can do? It is presuming too much on my strength! It is enough--it is a thousand times too much already--to be compelled to act such a comedy as I am compelled to act every day. God knows I am tired of it!
human
Julia, he said at last,
gpt
No!