human
And you? And you? she jeered.
gpt
I suppose he's made a saint of you.
human
I don't claim to be a saint, Mag. But I owe Kenyon everything I am in the world--everything.
gpt
Well, it isn't much of a debt,
human
No, he repeated,
gpt
After a moment he added,
human
Doctor Nesbit has kept this secret all these years. Now it's time to let these people know. You can see why, and the only reason I came to you--
gpt
You came to me, Grant, she cried,
human
And I suppose the next thing you long-nosed busybodies will do will be to get chicken hearted about Tom Van Dorn's rights in the matter. Ah, you hypocrites!
gpt
Well, I don't know, answered Grant sternly;
human
But she'll not go to him. Oh, he's perfectly foolish about her. Every time a photographer in this town takes her picture, he snoops around and gets one. He has her picture in his watch, in which he thinks she looks like the Van Dorns. When he goes away he takes her picture in a leather frame and puts it on his table in the hotel--except when I'm around. She laughed.
gpt
Ain't it funny? Ain't it funny, she chattered hysterically,
human
She shook with mirth, and went on:
gpt
Oh, the devil's coming round for Tom Van Dorn's soul--and all there is of it--all there is of it is the little green spot where he loves this brat. The rest's all rotted out!
human
Well, Mag--I must be going. I just thought it would be square to tell you before I go any further. About the other--the affair of Lila and her father is no concern of mine. That's for Lila and her mother to settle. But you and I and Kenyon are bound together by the deepest tie in the world, Maggie. And I had to come to you.