human
Ah, you are alone?
gpt
Alone.
human
Something is troubling you. What is it?
gpt
I am bored; and a person who is bored bores others.
human
Let us bore ourselves together, Signora Dias. That will be diverting. I have always wished to bore myself with you, you know.
gpt
Ah, you won't consent? You're very cruel.
human
If you're going to treat me as badly as this, you'd better send me away,
gpt
The stand is free to all the world,
human
You are a Domitian in woman's clothes, he cried.
gpt
Ah, you women! When you don't like a man you destroy him straightway.
human
You are too high up for me, he went on.
gpt
To descend to my level would be impossible for you and unworthy of you. It's equally impossible for me to rise to yours.
human
You are quite mistaken. I'm anything rather than a superior being. I'm a human earthly woman, like all others--more than others.
gpt
Then why do you suffer?
human
Because love is very bitter.
gpt
What love?
human
All love. It is bitterer than aloes, bitterer than gall, bitter in life and in death.