human
Oh, my darling! Trelyon said when she advanced alone toward him--for Mabyn had withdrawn--
gpt
I did wish to see you--for once, for the last time, she said.
human
If you had gone away, you would have carried with you cruel thoughts of me. I wish to ask your forgiveness--
gpt
My forgiveness?
human
Yes, for all that you may have suffered, and for all that may trouble you in the future--not in the long future, but for the little time you will remember what has taken place here. Mr. Trelyon, I--I did not know. Indeed, it is all a mystery to me now, and a great misery. Her lips began to quiver, but she controlled herself.
gpt
And surely it will only be for a short time, if you think of it at all. You are young--you have all the world before you. When you go away among other people, and see all the different things that interest a young man, you will soon forget whatever has happened here.
human
And you say that to me, he said,
gpt
I did say that,
human
And it was true?
gpt
It was true then--it is true now: that is all the misery of it,
human
And you talk of our being separated for ever! he cried.
gpt
No, not if I can help it. Mabyn has told me of all your scruples: they are not worth looking at. I tell you you are no more bound to that man than Mabyn is, and that isn't much. If he is such a mean hound as to insist on your marrying him, then I will appeal to your father and mother, and they must prevent him. Or I will go to him myself and settle the matter in a shorter way.
human
You cannot now, she said:
gpt
Then you've no right to be, said he hotly.
human
It was the most natural thing in the world--and he ought to have known it--that a young girl who has been argued into engaging herself to an old man should consider her being in love with another man as something of rather more importance--of a good deal more importance, I should say. And his suffering? He suffers no more than this lump of rock does. That is not his way of thinking--to be bothered about anything. He may be angry, yes--and vexed for the moment, as is natural--but if you think he is going about the world with a load of agony on him, then you're quite mistaken. And if he were, what good could you do by making yourself miserable as well? Wenna, do be reasonable, now.