human
Katharina has been here? Susannah's gardener ties up flowers like that. The fan--when I knocked--she is here still perhaps?
gpt
But, in Heaven's name, child, Orion went on, in an undertone,
human
She came by stealth, in the boat, whispered the child.
gpt
She sent Anubis from the treasurer's office to ask me if she might not come, she could not do without me any longer, and she never did me any harm and so I said yes--and then, when I knew it was your knock, whisk--off she went into the bedroom.
human
And if your grandmother were to come across her?
gpt
Then--well, then I do not know what would become of me! But oh! Orion, if you only knew how--how...