human
Hadria, pronounce my fate. Do you wish for vengeance still? You have only to take it, if you do. Only for heaven's sake, don't keep me in suspense. Tell me your decision.
gpt
Do you want to take revenge on me now?
human
No; she said abruptly,
gpt
In heaven's name, what is the meaning of this? Am I to be hated for a sin committed years ago, and long since repented? Have you no breadth of sympathy, no tolerance for erring humanity? Am I never to be forgiven? Oh, Hadria, Hadria, this is more than I can bear!
human
If vengeance is futile, so is forgiveness. It undoes no wrong. It is not a question of forgiveness or of vengeance. I think, after all, if I were to attempt the impossible by trying to avenge women whom men have injured, I should begin with the wives. In this case (she turned to the grave),
gpt
You speak as coldly, as bitterly, as if you regarded me as your worst enemy--I who love you.
human
All that is over. I too have a confession to make.
gpt
Good heavens, what is it? Are you not what I thought you? Have you some history, some stain--? Don't for pity's sake tell me that!
human
That is really amusing! she cried;
gpt
I should not hold myself responsible to you, for my past, in any case. My confession relates to the present. I came up here with this pencil and paper, half resolved to write to you--I wanted to tell you that--that I find--I find my feelings towards you have changed----
human
Then you _are_ in earnest? You _do_ hate me! for a sin dead and buried? Good God! could one have believed it? Because I was honest with you, where another man would have kept the matter dark, I am to be thrown over without a word, without a chance. Lord, and this is what a woman calls love!