human
I guess you could do 'most anything you set your hand to,
gpt
Oh, no,
human
Sing and play and cook--
gpt
But I can't earn anything. I'd like to earn something.
human
You would! Why, you have it fine here, I thought.
gpt
Oh, fine, yes. Dwight gives me what I have. And I do their work.
human
I see, said Cornish.
gpt
I never thought of that,
human
You're wondering why I didn't stay with him!
gpt
Oh, no,
human
Yes, you are, she swept on.
gpt
The whole town's wondering. Well, I'd like 'em to know, but Dwight won't let me tell.
human
he repeated.
gpt
I should say that was your own affair.
human
No. Not when Dwight gives me all I have.
gpt
Oh, that-- said Cornish.
human
That's not right.
gpt
No. But there it is. It puts me--you see what it does to me. They think--they all think my--husband left me.
human
Oh, well....
gpt
He didn't. He didn't leave me, she cried with passion.
human
He had another wife.
gpt
Lord sakes!
human
We were in Savannah, Georgia, she said.
gpt
We were going to leave for Oregon--going to go through California. We were in the hotel, and he was going out to get the tickets. He started to go. Then he came back. I was sitting the same as there. He opened the door again--the same as here. I saw he looked different--and he said quick: 'There's something you'd ought to know before we go.' And of course I said, 'What?' And he said it right out--how he was married eighteen years ago and in two years she ran away and she must be dead but he wasn't sure. He hadn't the proofs. So of course I came home. But it wasn't him left me.
human
No, no. Of course he didn't, Cornish said earnestly.
gpt
But Lord sakes--
human
That's what Dwight don't want me to tell--he thinks it isn't true. He thinks--he didn't have any other wife. He thinks he wanted--
gpt
You see, she said,
human
Dwight thinks he didn't want me.
gpt
But why don't you make your--husband--I mean, why doesn't he write to Mr. Deacon here, and tell him the truth--
human
He has written, she said.
gpt
The letter's there.
human
What'd he say?
gpt
Dwight don't like me to touch his mail. I'll have to wait till he comes back.
human
Lord sakes!
gpt
You--you--you're too nice a girl to get a deal like this. Darned if you aren't.
human
And there ain't, said Cornish sorrowfully,