human
Now, then, said he to Poppy,
gpt
She ain't bad, answered the fictitious character;
human
You will change all that.
gpt
I'll try--you bet.
human
Miss Vincent, said Joseph.
gpt
How good of you to come.
human
Not at all. I could not help. I have no free-will left. When you wrote Come--I came, I could do no other. I have no initiative, no power of resistance.
gpt
I do hope, Miss Vincent, that the thing you so feared has not happened.
human
What thing?
gpt
You have not been snapped up by a fortune-hunter?
human
No. People have not as yet found out that I have lost my individuality. I have kept very much to myself--that is to say, not to myself, as I have no proper myself left--I mean to the semblance of myself. People have thought I was anæmic.
gpt
Well, Poppy!
human
Right you are.