human
And now that I have told you so much, Mr. Dale, continued Clem, after a pause,
gpt
I trust that you, in your turn, will be able to answer me one or two questions. In the first place, will you be good enough to inform me what relation Miss Hermia Rivers is to Miss Pengarvon?
human
I darena tell you aught, and you mustna ask me. Years and years ago my mistress bound me down by oath, never without her leave to open my lips about certain things to man, woman, or child. It was a very solemn oath, and I darena break it.
gpt
At least, you can tell me this, he said presently.
human
Is either of Miss Rivers's parents still living?
gpt
I darena answer, and you mustna ask me,
human
Come, then, Mr. Dale, he said,
gpt
Bring her down to Stavering, he said, at last, bending a slow look on the young surgeon,
human
Then for the second time he said:
gpt
And I to have got it into my doited old head that the darling died ever so many years ago!