human
But I don't want it, Stevenage, she said.
gpt
I don't want it. I want you to go on to the service of the empire, I want to see you do great things, do all the things we've talked about and written about. Don't you see how much better that is for you and for me--and for the world and our lives? I don't want you to become a horrible little specialist in feeding and keeping me.
human
Then--then _wait_ for me!
gpt
But--I want to live myself! I don't want to wait. I want a great house, I want a great position, I want space and freedom. I want to have clothes--and be as splendid as your career is going to be. I want to be a great and shining lady in your life. I can't always live as I do now, dependent on my mother, whirled about by her movements, living in her light. Why should I be just a hard-up Vestal Virgin, Stephen, in your honor? You will not be able to marry me for years and years and years--unless you neglect your work, unless you throw away everything that is worth having between us in order just to get me.
human
But I want _you_, Mary, I cried, drumming at the little green table with my fist.
gpt
I want you. I want nothing else in all the world unless it has to do with you.
human
You've got me--as much as anyone will ever have me. You'll always have me. Always I will write to you, talk to you, watch you. Why are you so greedy, Stephen? Why are you so ignoble? If I were to come now and marry you, it wouldn't help you. It would turn you into--a wife-keeper, into the sort of uninteresting preoccupied man one sees running after and gloating over the woman he's bought--at the price of his money and his dignity--and everything.... It's not proper for a man to live so for a woman and her children. It's dwarfish. It's enslaving. It's--it's indecent. Stephen! I'd hate you so.
gpt
Before it is too late, Mary, dear,
human
But after the things that have happened. That night--the moonlight!
gpt
It's not fair, she said,
human
But Mary. This is parting. This indeed is parting.
gpt
Then at least talk to me again for one time more.
human
Afterwards, she said.
gpt
Afterwards I will talk to you. Don't make things too hard for me, Stephen.
human
If I could I would make this impossible. It's--it's hateful.
gpt
Good-bye,
human
All right, sir?
gpt
Go ahead!