human
If he is an adventurer, come here with the carefully-prepared plot by which he hopes to win the Brand estates, she said, slowly,
gpt
A parcel of moonshine!
human
I implore you to believe otherwise. Do you think I would have come to you on mere suspicion? I am perfectly convinced in my own mind, sir.
gpt
But you must convince others as well as yourself. You must bring proofs. Why, we can think nothing but that that ancient pique of yours against the captain has touched your brain, and made you really take up this unworthy suspicion against a man who is the same as ever he was. I see no difference in him, except that he looks the worse for wear.
human
Which his hard usage makes very natural,
gpt
You refuse to help me, then?
human
What would you like us to do, Miss Margaret?
gpt
I would like you to force this man into proving his identity; confront him with such circumstances as must unmask his plot, if he has one; you have the power and I have not.
human
I don't see that we are authorized to molest any man upon such crazy foundations as those you have advanced; indeed, I can't consent to take one step of an unfriendly nature against the colonel. I have been a faithful solicitor for the Brands these many years, and it is late in the day to turn against them now. Give it up, Miss Walsingham.
gpt
I shall not give it up, retorted Margaret rising;