human
I have been expecting you these two months past, I said, looking wistfully over the sea.
gpt
There has never come a ship from Denmark but I have boarded her, hoping to see you.
human
Well, you see me at last, and am I altered?
gpt
You are only more beautiful, Thora, more womanly. And so you are coming back to Pomona to visit us again?
human
No, not to visit you, Halcro. I am homeward bound this time. I am never going to leave old Orkney again. My schooling is over, and there is no one left in Copenhagen now to keep me there. I am going to settle down in some cottage near our dear sea cliffs, where I can see the ships passing from my garden seat and dream my life away in pleasant solitude.
gpt
In solitude!
human
Did you not get my last letter, Thora?
gpt
What! the one in which you told me of Jessie's marriage to Captain Gordon, and that the dominie had retired from his school, and that you were promoted to captain, and had called your new boat the Thora? Yes, certainly, I got it.
human
But there was something else I said in it, Thora--something more important to me than these things you speak of. Did you not read that part?