human
For--_him?_ Nannie!
gpt
No, oh no! It wasn't for David, except just at first--before--not when-- She was perfectly incoherent,
human
Let me tell you,
gpt
If I thought she had meant it for him, I would send it to him before night! Tell me everything,
human
I'm trying to, Nannie stammered,
gpt
I'll fight that damned will to my last breath! he burst out. Following the recoil of disgust at the idea of taking anything--
human
--that belonged to David Richie, came the shock of feeling that he had been tricked into the sentimentality of forgiveness.
gpt
I'll break that will if I take it through every court in the land!
human
But Blair! Mamma _didn't_ mean it for him at the last. Don't you see? Oh, Blair, listen! Don't be so--terrible; you frighten me, Nannie said, squeezing her hands hard together in the effort to keep from crying.
gpt
Listen: she told me on Wednesday, the day before she died, that she wanted to give you a present. She said, 'I must give him a check.' You see, she was beginning to realize how wrong her will was; but of course she didn't know she was going to die or she would have changed it.
human
That doesn't follow,
gpt
Then came the last day --Nannie could not keep the tears back any longer;
human
And then?
gpt
Then?
human
Then . . . she died,
gpt
But the signature! The signature! How--
human
In the night, I-- She stopped; terror spread over her face as wind spreads over a pool.
gpt
In the night, at three o'clock, I came down-stairs and--
human
Try and tell me, dear. I didn't mean to be savage.