human
Postpone? Now? After all this money spent? And everything signed and sealed and witnessed!
gpt
Yes, if you please, sir, because. . . .
human
Are you mad? Has somebody been putting the evil eye on you? The greatest match this island has ever seen, and you say postpone--put it off, stop it, that's what you mean. Do you want to make a fool of a man? At the last moment, too. Just when there's nothing left but to go to the High Bailiff and the Church! . . . But I see--I see what it is. It's that young Conrad--he's been writing to you.
gpt
Don't go to deny it, ma'am. He has been writing to every one--the Bishop, Father Dan, myself even. Denouncing the marriage if you plaze.
human
Aw yes, though, denouncing and damning it, they're telling me! Mighty neighbourly of him, I'm sure! Just a neighbour lad without a penny at his back to take all that throuble! If I had known he felt like that about it I might have axed his consent! The imperence, though! The imperence of sin! A father has no rights, it seems! A daughter is a separate being, and all to that! Well, well! Amazing thick, isn't it?
gpt
Then that woman in Rome--I wouldn't trust but she has been putting notions into your head, too. All the new-fangled fooleries, I'll go bail. Women and men equal, not a ha'p'orth of difference between them! The blatherskites!