human
You would not have believed he did it if I had talked for hours?
gpt
No,
human
We have only reason to guide us, and we argue clumsily, he said.
gpt
Women, we are told, have none--in their case it apparently isn't necessary. They were made differently. Insight, it seems, goes along with the charity that believes no evil.
human
I think the boys would believe you, as we do, but that, after all, scarcely goes very far. We have Esmond and the corporal to consider, and they are certainly not troubled with instinctive perceptions or any excess of charity. What is more to the purpose, they wouldn't try you here.
gpt
Now, if I'd nobody else to think of I'd stop right where I am; but there's an old woman back there in Oregon who's had trouble with the rest of us--'most all she could bear--and half of what I took out of the claim was to go to her. She was just to sit still and be happy, and never work any more. I guess it would break her heart if they hung me here in Canada.
human
Still, she'd never believe I did it. She's like you.