human
You have read them?
gpt
Did you mean me to read all?
human
Yes,
gpt
The last of them as well?
human
I gave them all without after-thought, I said,
gpt
I will be differently made, said she.
human
I thank God I am differently made. It was not a fit letter to be shown me. It was not fit to be written.
gpt
I think you are speaking of your own friend, Barbara Grant?
human
There will not be anything as bitter as to lose a fancied friend,
gpt
I think it is sometimes the friendship that was fancied! I cried.
human
What kind of justice do you call this, to blame me for some words that a tomfool of a madcap lass has written down upon a piece of paper? You know yourself with what respect I have behaved--and would do always.
gpt
Yet you would show me that same letter! says she.
human
I want no such friends. I can be doing very well, Mr. Balfour, without her--or you.
gpt
This is your fine gratitude!
human
I am very much obliged to you, said she.
gpt
I will be asking you to take away your--letters.
human
You shall never ask twice,