human
What is the matter?
gpt
Tell me what it is,
human
If you don't tell me what it is, I'll go back to Naples,
gpt
You despise me because I have left my home.
human
No, Anna,
gpt
You think I'm dreadful--you think of me as an abandoned creature.
human
No, dear one--no.
gpt
Perhaps--you--love another woman.
human
You can't think that.
gpt
Perhaps--you have--another tie--without love.
human
None; I am bound to no one.
gpt
You have promised yourself to no one?
human
To no one.
gpt
Then why are you so sad? Why do you weep? Why do you tremble? It is I who ought to weep and tremble, and yet I don't weep unless to see you weep. Your weeping breaks my heart, makes me desperate.
human
Anna, listen to me. By the memory of your mother I implore you to listen, to understand. I am miserable because of you, on your account--in thinking of what I have allowed you to do, of how you are throwing away your future, of the unhappiness that awaits you; without a home, without a name, persecuted by your family----
gpt
If you loved me, you wouldn't think these things; you wouldn't say them.
human
I have always said them, Anna; I have always repeated them. I have ruined you. For three days I have been in an agony of remorse; it is the same to-day. Though you are the light of my life, I must say it to you. To-day I can't forgive myself; to-morrow you will be unable to forgive me. Oh, my love! I am a gentleman, I am a Christian; and yet I have been weak enough to allow you and me to commit this sin, this fault.