human
I can't explain it--you'd have to see him--his _lips_--his thick, loose awful lips!
gpt
Ann, he whispered.
human
Please, dear--don't talk about it--don't think about it!
gpt
But I want it to go away! I don't want to be alone with it. I want somebody to know. I want _you_ to know.
human
All right, he murmured.
gpt
All right. I want to hear.
human
It's awful to be alone with awful thoughts, she whispered.
gpt
To be shut in with something you're afraid of.
human
I know--I know, he soothed her.
gpt
But you're going to tell me. Tell _me_. And then you'll never be alone with it again.
human
I've been afraid so much, she went on sobbingly.
gpt
Alone so much--with things that frightened me. That night I was alone. All alone. And afraid. You see I went and went and went. Just to be getting _away_. And at last I was out in the country. And then I was afraid of _that_. I went in something that seemed to be a barn. Hid in some hay--
human
I almost went crazy. Why I think I _did_ go crazy--with fear. Being alone. Being afraid.
gpt
So again I went. Just went. Just to get away. And that was when I saw it was life I'd have to get away from. That there wasn't any place in it for me. That it meant being alone. Afraid. That it was just _that_--those thick awful lips--that old man's eyes--Oh no--no--not that!