human
Who is your neighbor?
gpt
I don't know, she managed to whisper back.
human
He's so taken up with Mrs. Endsleigh Jarrott that he hasn't looked this way. I don't think he's any member of the family.
gpt
He must be, Wayne replied.
human
I know his voice. I have some association with it, but just what I can't remember.
gpt
He sounds English,
human
No, he isn't English. That's not my association. It's curious how the mind acts. Since I became--since my sight failed--my memory instinctively brings me voices instead of faces, when I want to recall anything. Aren't you going to speak to him? You've got the formula: Is this your bread or mine?
gpt
It's very convenient, but I don't think I shall use it.
human
He'd like you to, I know. I heard him say to Mrs. Endsleigh Jarrott as we came in--while Queenie Jarrott was talking--that you were he most strikingly beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life. How's that for a compliment from a perfect stranger?
gpt
I certainly sha'n't speak to him now. A man who could say that to Mrs. Endsleigh, after having seen _her,_ must be wofully wanting in tact.