human
Yes, she continued, returning to a subject which furnished both an escape and a concealment of her feelings,
gpt
I have been revisiting my girlhood. You love Kentucky but I cannot make myself over.
human
Sometime you might be in that part of Virginia. I should like you to know the country there and the place where my father's house stood. And when you see the Resident, I wish you would recall my father to him. And you remember that one of my brothers was a favourite young officer of his. I should like you to hear him speak of them both: he has not forgotten. Ah! My father! He had his faults, but they were all the faults of a gentleman. And the faults of my brothers were the faults of gentlemen. I never saw my mother; but I know how genuine she was by the books she liked and her dresses and her jewels, and the manner in which she had things put away in the closets. One's childhood is everything! If I had not felt I was all there was in the world to speak for my father and my mother and my brothers! Ah, sometimes pride is the greatest of virtues!
gpt
That is enough about me. Have you thought that you will soon be talking to the greatest man in the world--you who love ideals?
human
I have not thought of it lately.
gpt
You will think of it soon! And that reminds me: why did you go away as you did the last time you were here--when I wanted to talk with you about the book?
human
It was the first time you ever did anything that I could not understand: I could not read your face that day.
gpt
Can you read it now? he asked, smiling at her sorrowfully.
human
Perfectly!
gpt
What do you read?
human
Would I? Should I?
gpt
Why not? There was silence.
human
Let me talk to you about the book,