human
There's nothing more you'd like me to do?
gpt
Well, I can't do it for myself, he said and paused again.
human
I--I wonder if it would be possible for you to get a word with Sonia--find out what time she starts in the morning and then intercept her----
gpt
Well?
human
I wouldn't bother you, if I could see, O'Rane resumed apologetically.
gpt
Tell her that if she wants anything----
human
She can go to her parents, I said.
gpt
O'Rane, we're all of us different men and women every day of our lives, we're always changing, never the same. Some things change us more rapidly than others, marriage, illness, great prosperity or great disaster, the death of a friend--my dear boy, I'm only telling you what you know already. Because your name doesn't change, because you look the same and your hair doesn't turn white from illness or grief, you think that _you're_ the same. You're _not_. And _she's_ not. Since you parted, there have been changes and developments in both your souls which will prevent your ever coming together again. You don't like me to say it, but you'll have to recognise it.
human
But isn't there room for something new? he asked.
gpt
A man may love a woman with all his heart and soul, he may marry her, she may die; in time he may marry again--without forgetting her, without transferring the affection he once gave her--leaving her in the place where she's always been since she died, but somehow creating a new love. Don't you think that when two people ... separate, the husks of their love may die ... their old love, I mean, they may even hate the memory of it, but in time, perhaps, a new one may be born ...?
human
Between the same people? My friend, the memory of the separation, the reasons for it, will rise up like ghosts to keep them apart. You want her to come back?
gpt
Do you wonder?
human
What can you give her that you didn't give her before?
gpt
I shouldn't like to think that a second chance is always thrown away.
human
And what inducement can you offer?
gpt
What inducement did I offer before? We've been in love with each other so long! At one time she was actually engaged to another man.... But there was something constant and unchanging. She didn't forget him or hate him, but in time she had adjusted herself and come back to the thing that had always been there, hidden and unchanged.... So now, isn't it possible that, when the last six months fall into their proper perspective, when the ghosts no longer rise up----
human
How many people have you known to marry a second time after they've been divorced?
gpt
But there's no reason why they shouldn't.
human
In fact they don't,
gpt
Now, young man, when you've quite finished talking to my chauffeur!