human
You might be my child. You may marry again some day?
gpt
I might be struck by a comet or tumble on the third rail, with more probability. Jamais! Having broken you in has taken me to the door of the asylum. No more experiments. My arm is tired from wielding a cat-o'-nine-tails.
human
Quite so, but all literary men are not 'litterers,' and all men are not literary. You might select more wisely next time.
gpt
Disabuse your mind of that, I told him.
human
Such small wisdom as I have acquired has been paid for too dearly. Besides, there is only one Snipps, and no one else would understand me.
gpt
That's it, he said.
human
I was awake half of last night thinking about it. It's an awful thing to leave a helpless little girl all alone in a world of demons and vultures. The possibility haunts me.
gpt
Then take your medicine like a good boy and stay here to look after me, he was told.
human
If it comes to a wheeled chair, I will wheel it, and we will go to California and live under blue skies and rose bushes, or to India, and sit at Mrs. Besant's feet.