human
It is for Hugh that I speak. He loves you. Has he not told you so?
gpt
I do not wish to talk with you about it,
human
But I have a right, as his mother and your guardian, to know. I should be wanting in my duty, if I suffered your happiness to be perilled for want of a clear understanding between you. Hugh is proud and sensitive, and you bashful and just the least foolish; so that you are at cross purposes.
gpt
Hugh fully understands my feelings towards him.
human
You have given him encouragement?
gpt
None whatever: it would have been wrong in me to do so.
human
Wrong to love him! Why, he is your brother only in name.
gpt
Wrong to encourage him in a love I do not and cannot return,