human
They couldn't believe it long.
gpt
Oh, couldn't they! The story would follow me to my grave. Things like that are never forgotten among fellows so intimate as soldiers. There was a chap in our regiment who jilted a nice girl at the Cape--sailed for home secretly only a week before the wedding. He paused to let her take in the dastardly nature of the flight.
human
Well, he rejoined at the dépôt. He stayed--but he didn't stay long. The Rangers got too hot for him--or too cold. The last I ever heard of him he was giving English lessons at Boulogne.
gpt
It's idle to think that that kind of fate could overtake you.
human
The fate that can overtake me easily enough is that as long as I live they'll say I chucked a girl because she'd had bad luck.