human
I may have been wrong about it, Joe, but I thought the best way to bring you back to all the things you used to love was to let you think _you_ were doing it. So I let you and Dwight come together alone. I kept in the background, as I did about getting you into that club of yours. I was afraid to show my hand. On and on she talked to him. Oh, how simple and convincing, strong, and sensible and true.
gpt
Why didn't you say it, you little fool? You acted just like a scared young girl found out in doing something wrong! She was ready to cry, but checked herself.
human
At least don't be a baby now. What are you to do about it? She bit her lip. Now it was too late. She had made it worse--a hundred times! All at once she rose and began to walk.
gpt
Oh, rubbish! she thought, impatiently.
human
You're not to give up, when everything else in your whole life was going so perfectly splendidly! . . . Why, of course. That's it. I'll call up Nourse, and have him come and explain to Joe how I went to him at the very start.
gpt
Mr. Nourse is out of town.
human
Oh, yes. Thank you. I'd forgotten. When do you expect him back?
gpt
Not until the end of the week.
human
Suppose I do fail, after all! If there's a divorce he'll take them both!