human
Do you prefer to think it was or was not?
gpt
Are you going to answer accordingly?
human
Not at all. I was wondering which I wanted to think myself. I wish I had been with you. I should have known.
gpt
Would you? King spoke eagerly.
human
Would you mind telling me how?
gpt
I can't tell you how. Of course I came to know her looks much better than you; it really isn't strange that after seeing her only twice you couldn't be sure. I don't think any change of dress or environment could have hidden her from me. The question is, of course, why--if it was she--she should have chosen not to seem to know you--unless--
human
Yes--
gpt
Unless--she is not the poor girl she seemed to be. And that explanation doesn't appeal to me. I have known of poor girls pretending to be rich, but I have never, outside of a sensational novel, known a rich girl to pretend to be poor, unless for a visit to a poor quarter for charitable purposes. What possible object could there be in a girl's going about selling books unless she needed to do it? And she allowed me-- She stopped, shaking her head.
human
No, Jordan, that was not our little friend--or if it was, she was in that car by some curious chance, not because she belonged there.
gpt
So you're going on trusting her?
human
Until I have stronger proof to the contrary than your looking into a pair of beautiful eyes. Have you never observed, my friend, how many pairs of beautiful eyes there are in the world?
gpt
I haven't bothered much about them, except now and then for a bit of nonsense making.
human
But this pair you, too, are going to go on trusting?
gpt
I am. If that girl was Miss Linton she had a reason for not speaking. If it wasn't --he drew a deep breath--
human
I do, said Ellen Burns, smiling.
gpt
She thought she would never see you again, and she yielded to a girlish desire to look hard at--a real man.