human
I thought all Alard's talk of kek-kek-monsters was just superstition, she babbled,
gpt
I have to, Len said.
human
He's my partner.
gpt
Then you've been doing more than just _trading_ with the hyperspacers. You've been _associating_ with them, and they're even worse than extraterrestrials because they're so much more--extraterrestrial!
human
I suppose you told her not to eat or drink anything so she'd see the hyperspacer?
gpt
And I suppose you yourself did the same thing, not knowing the men weren't going to be drugged this trip? Len sat down behind his writing table and looked thoughtfully at the young man.
human
You must have done the same thing before, on other trips, to know as much as you seem to. You must have heard and seen a great deal, eh?
gpt
Plenty, Raines said, through brave, stiff lips.
human
Plenty.
gpt
Why did you bring her into this?
human
Because he wanted me to see you as you really are!
gpt
I had to tell somebody.
human
Why my wife, though? She owes you nothing; she owes me everything. The first woman of the streets you picked up would have made a safer confidante.
gpt
Maybe I trusted her.
human
Maybe you had no right to trust her! Mattern cried, almost with sincerity.
gpt
It would have been wrong of her not to tell me.
human
Maybe it was because I--I love her, Alard said, looking down at the thick rugs that covered the cabin floor.
gpt
If you fall in love with somebody, you tell them things.
human
I never do,
gpt
Maybe you've never been in love. Maybe you don't have any human feelings at all.