human
You see, she went on,
gpt
And I have got you back?
human
Yes, he answered, smiling.
gpt
I ask nothing better than to come back.
human
Do you mean that you are prepared to take everything on trust--after what I have just told you--without wanting explanations?
gpt
Friendship has no need of explanations, Iglesias said, with a touch of grandeur--
human
His bearing was courtly, his expression very gentle.
gpt
Therefore rest assured that whatever confidence you repose in me is sacred. Whatever confidence you withhold from me is sacred likewise.
human
You're beautiful, dear man, she murmured.
gpt
You're very beautiful. You're worth chucking the devil over for; but you'll take a jolly lot of living up to. So see here, you're bound to look me up pretty constantly just at first, for I tell you life is not going to be exactly a toy-shop for me for some little time to come. You hear? You promise?
human
I promise,
gpt
And there's another thing, she continued rather proudly,
human
--Poppy permitted herself a wicked grimace.--
gpt
Poor old Alaric used to tell me I was a great financier wasted, that I should have been invaluable as partner in their family banking concern--that's more than he'll ever be, poor chap, unless marriage makes pretty sweeping changes in him. Some of my sources of income naturally are cut off through the cleaning of the slate. For I have been tiptop beastly good--indeed I have, as I told you! No more cards, and oh dear, no more racing. But no doubt Cappadocia will contribute in the way of puppies. _Noblesse oblige_--she realises her duty towards posterity, does Cappadocia. So I shall scrape along quite tidily. And then, as long as I keep my voice and my figure, at a push there's always my profession.--You hadn't arrived at the fact that I had a profession? Such is fame, dear man, such is fame. Why, I started as a child-actress at thirteen; and went on till the jackal made that impossible, like virtue, and self-respect, and a decent home, and a few kindred trifles in favour of which every clean-minded woman has, after all, a strongish prejudice.