human
It's just a year since I was in America,
gpt
I say--she told you everything, didn't she?
human
Yes.
gpt
It rather--brings it home to one, doesn't it?
human
And yet--is this any worse for you than when they were living together?
gpt
I was really not thinking of myself for the moment. My God, Stornaway, if you were a woman and hated a man as she hates Grayle, how would you like to be feeling that he'd had anything to do with your child, how'd you like to go through all this hell of childbirth to bear _him_, a child? All your life, even if you came to love it or at least to be kind to it, you'd always be reminded, wouldn't you? You'd trace a likeness, it would seem to get stronger and stronger.... I wonder what we should do?
human
I imagine most women would try to stop the child being born.
gpt
Sonia wouldn't.
human
Then I'm afraid she's got to accept this as her punishment.
gpt
Hers?