human
If I were to say I could like you enough to _wait_, and _try_ if I could like you more, it always seemed to me so awful a thing--try if I could like you more--would not the terms seem to you too hard?
gpt
Oh! Margaret, darling, say you _can_ like me _now_. You know how I adore you,
human
Here, then, is the truth. I do not like you well enough to say all that; no, I do _not_, but I like you too well to say _go_. I don't know how it _may_ be, but if you choose to wait, and give me a very little time to resolve, I shall see clearly, and all uncertainty come to an end, _some_how, and God guide us all to good! That is the whole truth, Mr. Verney; and pray say no more at present. You shall not wait long for my answer.
gpt
I agree, darling. I accept your terms. You don't know what delay is to me; but anything rather than despair.