human
I expect we shall find lunch waiting, she said, as I came in.
gpt
We can only give you cold comfort, I'm afraid. When we turned the house into a hospital, Roger and I only kept two rooms for ourselves, so, if you find my nurses running in to see me every two minutes, don't you know?... I'm glad you were able to come, because we're spending your money here and I want you to see that we're spending it properly.
human
Vanity Fair cartoons, gun-cases,
gpt
Badminton Library
human
What happened? he demanded anxiously.
gpt
Catherine knows everything.
human
I'm afraid it's rather more and perhaps rather worse than either of you know, I warned him.
gpt
I called at the house, and she wasn't there. They'd had a quarrel, and she'd--left him. I've no idea where she is, though George Oakleigh was going to make all possible enquiries to-day. You've not seen O'Rane since last night?
human
We thought it better to wait till we'd heard from you, explained Lady Dainton.
gpt
She's--left this man, you say? I shall want a moment to consider this.
human
As I see it, Lady Dainton, I said,
gpt
It's all come so suddenly, don't you know? that one is quite bewildered and stupid. First a divorce and then an idea of stopping it and now an idea of not stopping it.... All of you have known about it so much longer.... By the way, why did you never tell us, Mr. Stornaway? I'm not reproaching you, of course, but as Sonia's mother----
human
I thought about it a great many times, I answered.
gpt
Our lips were really sealed by O'Rane. As long as he hoped to get her back, we wanted to spare you all knowledge of it; we wanted to make it easier for her by keeping down the number of people who _did_ know.
human
You didn't think that I could help to persuade her?
gpt
With great respect, I don't think anyone could have persuaded her, I said.
human
She started with a preposterous but sincere belief that her husband was unfaithful to her, their life was fantastically impossible, both had strong wills, O'Rane was culpably trustful and Grayle was a man who had been uniformly successful, as it is called, with women. You had all the ingredients of disaster there, though it's always a big thing for a woman to compound them. Once she'd done it, there was no recalling her. I've seen her twice since, Lady Dainton; no power on earth would have sent her back to her husband, even if she'd wanted to go.