human
Will you obey me if I give you a chance?
gpt
As you please, ma'am. You're stronger than me--that I know too well, and wiser than me, I know too well also. And as for being my own master, I've fared ill enough with that as yet. So whatever your ladyship pleases to order me; for I'm beat, and that's the truth.
human
Be it so then--you may come out. But remember, disobey me again, and into a worse place still you go.
gpt
I beg pardon, ma'am, but I never disobeyed you that I know of. I never had the honour of setting eyes upon you till I came to these ugly quarters.
human
Never saw me? Who said to you, 'Those that will, be foul, foul they will be'?
gpt
I gave you your warning then, but you gave it yourself a thousand times before and since. Every bad word that you said--every cruel and mean thing that you did--every time that you got tipsy--every day that you went dirty--you were disobeying me, whether you knew it or not.
human
If I'd only known, ma'am---
gpt
You knew well enough that you were disobeying something, though you did not know it was me. But come out and take your chance. Perhaps it may be your last.