human
So the little girl is one reason for your staying here. What's another?
gpt
I don't know that I ought to tell you that; and yet I might as well. It's just this: they're not very well off--so I can help. Naturally I like that.
human
You can help by footing the bills. That's all very fine if you enjoy it, but everybody wouldn't.
gpt
They would if they were in my position, she insisted.
human
When you can help in any way it gives you a sense of being of use to some one. I'd rather that people needed me, even if they didn't want me, than that they shouldn't need me at all.
gpt
They need your money, he declared, with a young man's outspokenness.
human
That's what.
gpt
But that's something, isn't it? When you've no place in the world you're glad enough to get one, even if you have to buy it. My guardian and his wife mayn't care much to have me, but it's some satisfaction to know that they'd get along much worse if I weren't here.
human
So should I, he laughed.
gpt
What I'm to do when I'm turned adrift without you, Heaven only knows. It's curious--the effect imprisonment has on you. It takes away your self-reliance. It gives you a helpless feeling, like a baby. You want to be free--and yet you're almost afraid of the open air.