human
Victor! Victor! let me speak to you. You shall listen; you shall not judge me unheard.
gpt
Signorina, I have judged you by only too ample evidence.
human
I deny it. But you love me still?
gpt
Love you? More shame on me! A laugh, a compliment, a caress, a cashmere, is as much as such women as you are worth. Love becomes ridiculous named in the same breath with you.
human
Kill me you will. Death would have no sting from your hand, but never speak such words to _me_.
gpt
How can I choose but speak them? You know that I believed you in Italy, and how on that belief I offered you my name--a name never yet stained, never yet held unworthy. I lost you, to find you in society which stamped you for ever. A lovely fiend, holding raw boys enchained, that your associates might rifle their purses with marked cards and cogged dice. I hoped to have found a diamond, without spot or flaw. I discovered my error too late; it was only glass, which all men were free to pick up and trample on at their pleasure.
human
Hush! hush! listen to me first. If you once thought me worthy of your love, you may, surely, now accord me pity. I shall not trouble you long. After this, you need see me no more. I am going back to my old convent. You and the world will soon forget me, but I shall remember you, and pray for you, as dearer than my own soul.
gpt
Go on.