human
This is very good of you to come to me.
gpt
Of course I came.
human
Because you were good. You need not have come unless you had wished it. I had so spoken to you as to justify you in staying away. My voice is gone, and I can only squeak at you in this broken treble.
gpt
Your voice would not have mattered at all.
human
Ah, but it has mattered to me. What made you want to marry me?
gpt
Your beauty quite as much as your voice,
human
And that has gone too. Everything I had has gone. It is melancholy! No, my lord, she said, interrupting him when he attempted to contradict her,
gpt
That, indeed!
human
As far as I know myself, I did not love you. You have heard me speak of Frank Jones,--a man who can only wear two clean shirts a week because he has been so boycotted by those wretched Irish as to be able to afford no more. I would take him with one shirt to-morrow, if I could get him. One does not know why one loves a person. Of course he's handsome, and strong, and brave. I don't think that has done it, but I just got the fancy into my head, and there it is still. And he with his two shirts, working every day himself with his own hands to earn something for his father, would not marry me because I was a singing girl and took wages. He would not have another shirt to be washed with my money. Oh, that the chance were given to me to go and wash it for him with my own hands!