human
We are not really at variance, believe me, Temperley pleaded.
gpt
You state things rather more strongly than I do--a man used to knocking about the world--but I don't believe there is any radical difference between us.
human
Do you remember the debate that evening in the garret? Do you remember the sentiments that scared your sister so much?
gpt
Well, I don't hold those sentiments merely for amusement and recreation. I mean them. I should not hesitate a moment to act upon them. If things grew intolerable, according to my view of things, I should simply go away, though twenty marriage-services had been read over my head. Neither Algitha nor I have any of the notions that restrain women in these matters. We would brook no such bonds. The usual claims and demands we would neither make nor submit to. You heard Algitha speak very plainly on the matter. So you see, we are entirely unsuitable as wives, except to the impossible men who might share our rebellion. Please let us go back to the hall. They are just beginning to dance another reel.
human
I cannot let you go back. Oh, Hadria, you can't be so unjust as to force me to break off in this state of uncertainty. Just give me a word of hope, however slight, and I will be satisfied.
gpt
Have you really taken in what I have just said?
human
Every word of it.
gpt
And you realise that I mean it, _mean_ it, with every fibre of me.
human
I understand; and I repeat that I shall not be happy until you are my wife. Have what ideas you please, only be my wife.
gpt
You don't think I am really in earnest. Let us go.
human
I know you are in earnest, he cried, eagerly following her,