human
Won't they miss you at home?
gpt
At home? Where do you mean?
human
Why--where you live; where your mother lives.
gpt
My mother died a few months after I was born.
human
Oh! But even so, you live somewhere, don't you?
gpt
I do; but they don't miss me there, if that's what you want to know.
human
I was only afraid, he said, apologetically,
gpt
I've nothing else to do with it. I shall be only too glad if I can help you to escape.
human
Why? Why should you care about me?
gpt
I don't, she said, simply;
human
Oh, then you're helping me just--on general principles?
gpt
Quite so.
human
Well, he smiled,
gpt
Because I don't like the law.
human
You mean that you don't like the law as a whole?--or--or this law in particular?
gpt
I don't like any law. I don't like anything about it. But, she added, resorting to her usual method of escape,
human
It's just as well for me not to excite curiosity, she explained to him before leaving;
gpt
And have you no remorse at betraying their confidence?
human
Most of them, she declared,
gpt
You seem to have a great objection to the law.
human
Well, haven't you?
gpt
Yes; but in my case it's comprehensible.
human
So it is in mine--if you only knew.
gpt
Perhaps, he said, looking at her steadily,
human
I never committed the crime of which they found me guilty.
gpt
Their string of circumstantial evidence was plausible enough, I admit. The only weak point about it was that it wasn't true.