Alignment-Lab-AI/GutenDialogue · Datasets at Hugging Face

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34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Henry Russell! she exclaimed, trying to reveal both dignity and disdain, in spite of her ridiculous position," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Frieda, you do me an injustice, he began," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, Henry; now that you have accomplished your purpose, I hope you will be good enough to leave me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer to see you safely through the woods. When we are nearer the house I may be able to find someone to take my place." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are many things I would like to talk over with you, Frieda, but this is not the time. Neither do I want you to think I meant to take an unfair advantage of you by forcing myself upon you without your knowledge. I think I scarcely realized myself just what I was doing. I am sorry you felt compelled to run away from home because we sometimes quarreled. I do not know just how much I was in the wrong at those times, but I fear you were not happy with me or you would not have let the fact that we differed about a good many things have made you wish to leave me. Please remember, Frieda, if there is ever a time when you wish to talk matters over with me, I shall be glad to come to you. I will not come again unless you summon me." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't tell Mrs. Naxie, Bryan, that I spoke of it, she volunteered as soon as she beheld the preparations," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank told me to tell you that he was sorry not to be able to come over with us this afternoon, Bryan, Jack announced a few moments later, when the four of them had gone out to select a place where tea could be served," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But for some reason or other he telephoned that he could not come down from London today. I don't know what is wrong with Frank lately. He has never been so absorbed in political matters. I am afraid Frieda and Olive will think he neglects his family disgracefully. Please tell them, Bryan, that he is sometimes an attentive husband." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I am rather glad Frank takes his work as a member of Parliament as the most important thing he has to do. After all, helping to make the laws of one's country is a pretty serious occupation. Which do you think more serious--Captain MacDonnell, being a soldier and fighting when it is necessary to defend the laws, or making them in the beginning?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Frieda, Jack whispered when they were safe from being overheard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would give a great deal if Bryan and Olive would learn to care for each other. Ordinarily I think it is horrid to be a matchmaker, but Bryan and Olive are both so lovely and you don't know what it would mean to me to have Olive live near me. It is heavenly these days, having you both here. You can't realize how lonely I get for you and my own country sometimes." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain MacDonnell and Olive look too much alike, she argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer marriages where the man and woman are contrasts." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "BUT Henry cannot go; it is absurd! He never shot a gun in his life and besides I--" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you must be mistaken about your husband's being unable to shoot, Frieda, Lord Kent answered dryly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As a matter of fact I believe he is an expert; he told me himself that he had taken prizes for marksmanship when he was a boy, but had never cared to use his skill for hunting. As for your saying he can't go; well, the truth is, Frieda, Professor Russell has already gone. He came in to see me a few days ago to say that he had volunteered and was about to be sent somewhere in France." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean that Henry has joined the army--that he has crossed over to France without asking me how I would feel--without even coming to say good-bye," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, my dear child, how could your husband come to say good-bye to you when you have been steadfastly refusing to see him for weeks? Frank continued, still a little impatient over feminine unreasonableness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He told me to tell you his plans and that he had made all arrangements in case--" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you motor down to the station with me, please, Jack?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan is expecting to be here again this afternoon for a farewell visit, dear. He has been delayed for some reason or other but hopes to leave with his regiment tomorrow, Frank announced on the way to his train." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know I think Bryan is a lucky fellow these days, not to have anyone very close to him--anyone who cares very much what becomes of him. Oh, of course, I should care, more than I like to think; but I mean no mother or father--no family." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should also care a great deal, Frank," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a funny thing that Bryan has never married. He is an uncommonly fascinating fellow. Of course, he hasn't much money; but that ought not to stand in his way. He has his profession. Queer, when he was a boy he used to talk about being an artist; but there is a lot of difference between an artist and a soldier. He must be glad now of his choice. Sometimes I think Bryan has never married because he has never seen any woman as attractive as you are. He has almost said as much to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is nonsense, Frank. After all, you know Bryan is pretty young; there is no use talking as if he were a confirmed old bachelor." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I have one of Vive's blue ribbons to tie in my buttonhole, please, Lady Jacqueline? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lady Jacqueline being a title which Captain MacDonnell had originated for Jack, but which many other people also used." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Every knight, when he went off to the wars in the old days, wore his lady's colors. I should like to have Vive for my lady." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Won't you take a farewell ride with me this afternoon, Jack? Captain MacDonnell asked the next instant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be the best way to manage our good-bye." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'll go if you'll come back to dinner with Frank and the rest of us, she agreed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be ready in five minutes." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you would give this to Frank for me, Lady Jack, and if anything happens to me ask him to read it, and to let you read it afterwards if he thinks best. Sorry to be mysterious, but this is a kind of cranky wish of mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, Bryan. You know I have always felt rather like a big sister to you; I am nearly a year older. But, today I think I feel like your mother, she continued, trying to smile, but with her voice breaking a little." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you must promise me, if there is anything I can ever do for you later on you will let me know. In a way I believe I am almost envious of you, Bryan. I think I have wanted to be a boy ever since I could sit on the back of a horse and ride over our ranch with my father. That is why people have always called me 'Jack,' I suppose. Anyhow, just now, I think I would like to go out to meet a great adventure. I wonder what a woman's great adventure is. I presume it is marriage for most of us. At any rate Frank is terribly envious of you, Bryan. He has said so to me half a dozen times. He does not seem to know whether he ought to go to the front, which is what he wants to do, or to stay on here doing his work in Parliament. Of course, he ought to stay, Jack argued, repeating what she had been saying a good many times to her husband recently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There never was a time when a member of Parliament had such great work to do, and that is Frank's real duty." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange for Bryan to have confided this letter to us, Frank remarked, as he put it carefully away in a strong box where he kept his important papers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what old Bryan has written? I never dreamed he had a secret in his life which he has never told to me. But, perhaps he wants us to do some favor or other for him. Truly I hope we may never have to open the letter." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Frieda?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I have just received a note from a young soldier to whom I sent the first pair of socks I ever made, she returned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He may not have originated the poem, but it is almost worth the trouble and the time I took on the socks. Do listen:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks, dear lady, for the socks you knit; Some socks, some fit. I used one for a hammock and the other for a mitt. I hope I meet you when I've done my bit, But where in the h... did you learn to knit?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if I am improving?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jimmie and I are going to drive down to the village to see old Dame Quick, she announced," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I promised to read to her this afternoon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What will you do with Jimmie while you read? He will never keep still," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, he and nurse will return back in the governess cart. I want to walk home. Don't worry if I am a little late," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope Frieda won't be too long. She does not know this country as I do," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Huggins" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "America" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure, I've been waitin' and longin' for the sight of you these two hours," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know you have had half a dozen visitors during the two hours you say you have been waiting, Mrs. Huggins, Frieda returned. For it was true that the tiny house and the old woman were the center of all the gossip in the village." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect you to tell me a lot of news." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is true these are news days in England and elsewhere. Times were, when the days might be dull without a birth or a death, or a mating. But now one wakes up to something stirrin' every day--a lad goin' off to the war, or maybe one gettin' killed; and the girls coomin' in to tell me their troubles; some of them just married, and some of them not married at all yet. But all of them worryin' their hearts out. Sure, and if war is goin' on forever--and it looks like it is--I'm for the women goin' into battle along with their men." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you have not told me any special news this afternoon, Frieda protested, having lifted her cup for a second helping of tea, and making up her mind that she could not think of herself while visiting, as she usually did at home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My sister and brother always expect me to know something interesting after a visit to you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't care for gossip, she returned," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Since you came in I've been wonderin' whether certain information should be sent to Lord and Lady Kent. I don't think much of it myself, as there has been such a steady stream of spy talk these months past. But they are tellin' in Granchester that there is a man there who has taken a house a short distance from the village, on the road to Kent House. It seems he keeps to himself too much to please the village. He says he has been ill, and I'm sure has a right to a mite of peace if he wants it. It's only the village that's talking. Those higher up must know things are what they should be, since they don't bother him." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose you tell my fortune, she suggested rather shyly. For some time past she had been thinking of just this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't you say you sometimes told the fortunes of the boys and girls in Granchester, and that a great many things you predict come true?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell the fortunes, child, of boys and girls whose grandfathers and grandmothers I once knew. That isn't difficult fortune telling. I know certain tricks in the faces, I remember what their own people thought and did long before their day. Like father, like son; or maybe like mother, like son; and like father, like daughter. But you-- The old woman shook her head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know nothing about you, child; or your country, or your people, or what you have made of life for yourself with that pretty face of yours." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well; just let the tea leaves show you a little," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have had too many of the things you wish without ever having to work for them, or to wait, little lady, she repeated slowly. Then she glanced down into the extended tea cup." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I see that you will have to lose something before you find out that you care for it. I also see a long journey, some clouds and at last a rainbow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the Rainbow Ranch is the name of my own home. I wonder if I have ever told you that? she inquired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you are mistaken if you think I have had the things I wish." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Frank, I don't think you understand the situation in the United States, Jack argued, speaking good naturedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, we represent so many nationalities, so many differences of opinion and training, that we can't all think alike. The President is supposed to represent everybody." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nonsense, Frank interrupted his wife not too politely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The United States has been thinking about nothing but getting rich. They are a nation of shirkers, willing to stand back and let others do the work and suffer the loss." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are a good many millions of us for us all to be shirkers, Frank," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not afraid of anything in the world, are you, Jack?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goodness, Frank, what an extraordinary opinion you and a few other people have of me! I am one of the biggest cowards in the world about the things I am afraid of. I simply don't happen to be afraid of animals, as so many women are. And that is not a virtue, but because I was brought up with them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to know what you do fear, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am dreadfully afraid of the people I care about being angry with me, though you and the rest of my family may not believe it, as I am supposed to have once been a wilful person, she returned unexpectedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sometimes I wonder, Frank, just how much of a coward I would be, if I had either to give up what I thought was right or else to have some one seriously angry with me. I have not the courage of my convictions like Frieda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, Frank, if it is fair to Frieda not to let her know what has happened to Professor Russell? Sometimes I have thought she has worried more over his silence than we imagine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frieda deserves whatever may come to her. It is an old-fashioned axiom, dear, but all the more true for that reason: Frieda has made her bed; now let her lie upon it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But Frieda is hardly more than a child, Jack protested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides, that is a pretty hard rule to apply to people. I don't think you and I would like to have it applied to us if we were ever in any difficulty." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, Jack, it is not for us to decide anything concerning Frieda and her husband. That is for them. We are simply doing what Professor Russell has requested of us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but Frieda," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Frieda is receiving just what she asked for--silence. But you must not worry over Frieda. She will solve existence happily for herself soon enough. Almost any man would do anything and forgive anything in behalf of such blue eyes and yellow hair as Frieda's to say nothing of her Professor. I may pretend to be severe but I should probably forgive her as readily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sooner than you would me? Jack inquired and laughed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, of course, you would. Everybody always has as long as I can remember." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid you have had to do the forgiving recently, Jack. I expect I have been difficult. But I feel so torn these days wanting to be over in France doing the real work with fellows like Bryan, and at the same time wanting to be here with you and the babies and knowing I am perhaps more useful in London than I would be elsewhere." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, Frank, she answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Jack, I don't; but I thank you for understanding." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is from Bryan, I believe, Jack. Do tell me what he says." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan says he is all right and sends his love to the family, but more especially to his Lady Vive. He asks us all to write to him oftener if we can manage it, as we are his adopted family and he has no other. Frieda, he says your gift of socks is the most wonderful in all France. I actually believe Bryan is almost having a good time; but if he is not he is awfully brave." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gracious, Jack, Frieda exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As long as there is nothing the matter with Captain MacDonnell, I wouldn't shed any tears over him. You so seldom cry, it always makes me wretched when you do. I'll bet Jack has never shed any tears over you, Frank." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I am nothing but a civilian these days and Bryan is a soldier. I can't expect the same interest to be bestowed upon me, even by my own wife." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is Bryan, Frank then exclaimed without waiting to be asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had word from the War Office today that he had been mortally wounded." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sure, Frank, there can be no mistake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid not, dear. Bryan was leading a charge out of his trench when a shell hit him. His own men carried him back to a field hospital." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the news only said that Bryan was fatally hurt--not that things were over?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but I'm afraid he may be by now, Frank answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent half a dozen cables for more news." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I won't believe the worst until it really happens." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan's letter, Frank, Jack remarked quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think you ought to open it? He said that if anything happened to him you were to read it first, and afterwards I was to see the letter if you thought best. I remember he seemed much in earnest when he gave it to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know I had forgotten, Jack? But I don't think Bryan meant us to disturb the letter until we know that the worst has happened to him and we don't know this yet; we only fear it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you are mistaken, Frank. There must be something in Bryan's letter that he wants us to do for him. It may be something that would come afterwards, but it also may be something that we could do for him now. Of course you must judge, but this is the way I feel about it." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what to do, Jack, he argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Bryan still lives he may, of course, recover and I would not then like to feel that I have pryed into his secret. On the other hand, you may be right and Bryan may have made some simple request of us which we could carry out for him at once. Bryan is a sentimental chap always. I wish, this time, he had been more explicit." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Read this, Jack. It is just as well that you should know what is in it. Bryan must have been considerably upset over his farewells and the thought of what might lie ahead of him, or he would never have made such a request of us. He must have realized afterwards that the thing is impossible." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see what you find impossible, Frank, Jack answered, placing the letter inside the envelope and quickly returning it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was only waiting until we heard more news to ask you to let me go to Bryan, even if he had not made this request of us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to seem unkind, dear. In a way it is pretty hard to refuse what Bryan asks. Only he could not have appreciated just how much he was asking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand what you mean, Frank. Certainly neither of us can dream of not agreeing. I know you will worry over the discomfort, perhaps even the danger of the trip to France for me. But hundreds of women have gone and are going every day to care for the soldiers who are entire strangers to them. Many times I have wanted to go myself before this, except for leaving you and my babies behind. But now I may only need to stay a little time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We won't discuss the matter any further please, Jack," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me your reason please, Frank. This isn't like you. You can't mean to be so selfish--even so cruel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry to have to say this to you, dear. I wish you could have been willing to do what I asked, without demanding my reason. But I can't let my wife go to Bryan; I can't let people think you and he care this much for each other. People would talk--there would be gossip. I am your husband and it is my place to safeguard you. You and Bryan never think of consequences--you are only impetuous children." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you mean-- Jack let her hands drop slowly from her husband's shoulders to her own sides," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I am sorry to disappoint you, because I do mean it, Jack, dear. I suppose it does seem narrow and worldly to you, with your wider ideas of freedom and loyalty. But hard as this may be for us both, you must abide by my decision." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, Frank, she answered quietly," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll let you know as soon as I hear from the war office," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Jack? Are you going up to London to join Frank?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; I am not going to Frank, she explained," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you won't approve what I am planning to do any more than Frank does, Jack continued," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you won't be angry with me, Jack, and of course I cannot hope to influence you if Frank cannot; but I don't think you ought to do so serious a thing without Frank's consent. In any case, please don't go away without his knowing. You must know that this is not right and that Frank will probably be very hurt and angry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I realize you are right, Olive, and I am afraid Frank will be both the things you say, and more than you may realize. I know, also, that I ought to see him again and tell him definitely just what I intend to do and why I intend doing it. But candidly, if I do, I fear that Frank will not permit it. He is not an American husband, and in any event there would be a scene between us. Frank would not understand at first that this time I intend to keep to my determination. We might quarrel and I don't wish that. It would make me even more unhappy and not save me in any way from Frank's displeasure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, Jack, why do you think it is more important to do what Captain MacDonnell desires of you than what Frank wishes?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad you asked me that, Frieda, dear, she responded," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead, Jack, then, and no matter what happens I'll stand by you and swear you've done the right thing to the bitter end. You have been more right than other people as long as I've known you. I would not pay any attention to Olive. I told you that Olive was getting to be an old maid and that old maids always take the men's side. Only you are not being rash, Jack, are you, so you won't have to suffer uncomfortable consequences afterwards?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll look after my babies for me, won't you, Olive? And Frieda, won't you try and get Frank into a good humor with me before I come back? I shall be gone only a few days; perhaps Bryan won't need me at all when I arrive. I am going up to London within two hours, but I'll get away from there as soon as I can and take the first channel boat possible. I must finish packing, but I'll see you again before I start." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somehow I wish Jack wouldn't. Maybe at the last moment she'll see Frank and change her mind, Frieda suggested, staring out at the winter landscape with her small nose pressed mournfully against the window pane like a discontented child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand Frank's disposition very well. He is so different from Henry. Then he has changed a great deal. We never thought of his being autocratic when Jack married him, but he seems rather that way to me lately, though he is terribly nice and I am fond of him. I wouldn't be, though, if he was ever the least bit disagreeable to Jack. She is much too good for him or any other man. Isn't it like her to go rushing off in this quixotic fashion, knowing that lots of people will misunderstand her, just because Captain MacDonnell would like to feel her presence beside him, if anything has to happen to him? Well, I suppose that is exactly what I felt when I rushed to her the moment I left Henry? Only if Frank decides to be horrid it would be unfortunate for us both to be having trouble with our husbands at the same time. I suppose people would say it was because we did not have the proper bringing up when we were children." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be absurd, Frieda, Olive answered irritably." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, Frank and Jack are not going to have any serious difficulty. She and Frank are quite different--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you ever get tired of saying that to me, Olive Van Mater? Of course Jack is different, but I don't see that Frank is entirely unlike other men. Oh, I know you'll be shocked and angry at this and so would Frank and Jack, if they ever heard; but just the same I think Frank Kent is a little bit jealous of Jack's friendship for Captain MacDonnell. He would rather die than confess it to himself. I at least give him the credit for not knowing it, but it's true just the same." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that is very horrid of you, Frieda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I thought you would think so. Still, I do wish it was a whole week from today and Jack was safely home again. I am frightened about her taking such a trip alone; and as for my attempting to get my brother-in-law into a good humor after he learns that his august Highness has been disobeyed--well, the task is beyond my humble powers. In any case, Olive, you can break the news of Jack's departure to him." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack has written me a note telling me that she has gone to France. You both probably know I did not wish her to go. Please let us not speak of this matter again." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Frank, I am so glad to be at home again. It has all been so distressing. Poor Bryan is going to get well, but I fear he will hate it when he does, for he may never walk again. He does not know this yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am horribly sorry for Bryan," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are still angry with me, Frank? Jack queried, though the question was scarcely a necessary one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have not yet seen that I had the right to judge for myself in this thing about Bryan? After all, what possible wrong have I done? And I did give Bryan pleasure; he does not dream, of course, that I went to him without your consent." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, Frank, even if you do continue to disapprove of me and to think I did wrong to disobey you, won't you make friends with me? Please say I'm forgiven?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I presume, Jack, that you consider it a very simple matter for me to say I forgive you and to overlook your utter disregard of my wishes, and your deception in the matter. But I cannot see the thing in that light. You have not only wounded me, but you have made me ridiculous. To say I forgive you, or feel as I did before would not be the truth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, Frank," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "made her particularly" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you thinking about, Frieda? Certainly not of what I just said to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still I was thinking of you, Frank, she answered, smiling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps as a matter of vanity, yes, Frieda? But of course a good deal depends upon what one is thinking. What were you thinking of me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, only how unlike you and Henry are," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, considering the fact that you didn't find it possible to continue to live with 'Henry,' I suppose I ought to be flattered. Only as a matter of fact, Frieda, I admire Professor Russell very much." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yet even though that is true, Frank, Henry never took the tone with me of insisting that he was always right and I was always in the wrong. Do you know, Frank, I am beginning to think--oh well, Henry was never so horrid to me as you are to Jack. He isn't a bit of a bully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you think I am 'horrid' to Jack and a bully besides, do you, Frieda?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course you are going to think I am interfering, Frank, and no one ever pays any real attention to what I say, but I just thought I'd tell you anyhow. You are making a big mistake. Of course I realize that you are not so silly as not to appreciate Jack, but I don't believe you have ever thought what it might mean to lose her. You see she isn't like most women, she really does not know how to quarrel for any length of time. But when she was hurt or seriously angry as a girl she used to keep still for a long time not saying a word. Then she used to do something unexpected." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been afraid lately that Jack might do something queer now, something no one of us dreams she would think of doing. She is so very unhappy. You remember, Frank, don't you, what a long time it took you to win Jack? I wonder if it might not take you even longer to win her back again!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot discuss my relations with Jack, even with you, Frieda. That is a matter between us alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly I appreciate your point of view, Frank, from my own sad experience." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know I am silly, Frank, she confessed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are an infant, Frieda, Frank remarked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course Jack has been paying visits and has stayed too long. But perhaps I had best go and look for her, unless she has found a friend to act as an escort it is too late for her to be out alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But where are you going to look?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Bryan, one did not like to allow oneself to think of him too often these days, yet he must be brought back home as soon as possible," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is trouble in the big house, also, she said to herself, wagging her old head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Funny how when trouble of one kind gets loosed in the world, so many other kinds follow it." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was nothing more for him to do but to go home also," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank, is that you?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down for a little while will you please, Frank? The ground is not particularly damp in some places, I have been sitting here a long time." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not ill, are you, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was dizzy and very tired a little while ago, I don't know just how long. I sat down here to rest and fell asleep for a time. I am quite all right now." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is something I want to say to you, Frank. I have been making up my mind to speak of it for some time. This afternoon I knew I had to decide. I went off for a long walk and now I have decided." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to go home, Frank?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean I want to go back to the Rainbow ranch to see Jim and Ruth and Jean, but Jim most of all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't answer, Frank, until I have explained to you a little better. I know it seems horrid to leave you alone and to take the babies away, when you are so worn out with your work and so sad over all the wretched tragedy of the war. You will miss the babies, even if you will not particularly miss me. Still I'll have to go, Frank. I can't live on with you not forgiving, not caring for me any more. I won't stay long unless you wish it and I'll come back whenever you send for me. But I must go; it has seemed to me lately as if I could not breathe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see until lately I never dreamed that when things came to a crisis, to a question of right, to a question of my judgment, or my conscience, you would not be willing to let me do as I decided and thought best. I knew you liked me to follow your way in little things and I never minded most times. Often I was glad to do as you wished and when I didn't agree to your way, I never considered the fact seriously one way or the other. But lately I have seen that if we go on living together, I have got to be a coward, a kind of traitor to myself by always appearing to agree with you, or else live with you and have you angry and dissatisfied with me. I cannot bear either. Marriage does not mean that to me, Frank. I have to get away for a little while to see if I can find out what I should do." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think this is a pretty severe punishment, Jack, if you think I am unfair. But you must let me take you home to Kent House now; Olive and Frieda are both dreadfully worried to know what has become of you." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly you don't show much consideration for Frank, Frieda protested when she first heard the news." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems to me that England is _his_ country and he has a good deal more work to do and goes through a lot more than you do, Jacqueline Ralston. I never could make up my mind to leave my husband under such circumstances." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know what you are thinking of, but it was quite different with Henry and me. He did not need me, he thought I was a butterfly and my wishing to go out and dance and do exciting things disturbed his work. He didn't allow me to go with other people because he thought it was his _duty_ to look after me. He said so, said I was too young to be expected to take care of myself. He wasn't a bit jealous like Frank, I shouldn't have minded a jealous husband. If I said he was jealous, I was only pretending because I wanted to seem interesting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frank jealous? Jack laughed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are too silly, Frieda." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just the same you'll be sorry and ashamed of yourself some day, Jack Ralston. You need not pretend anything to me, I understand the present situation perfectly. Frank was rather horrid to you and he ought not to be allowed to be a bully, but you could really twist him around your finger if you tried. You can now at any rate because he adores you. And Frank is pretty nice you know, most women would be glad to have him. After all he has a title and money, and men are going to be scarce when this war is over." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frieda!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know it will look perfectly absurd for us both to go back home without husbands, Frieda tossed out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't mind half so much when Frank was around and there was at least one man in our family. But of course it looks now as if we had something the matter with us, horrid dispositions, so that no man could make up his mind to live with us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have no right to assume I am behaving as you did, Frieda, because I want to go to the old ranch for a time. Frank has given me his consent, I've no idea of running away." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dame Quick" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you a deserter, Henry, hiding from justice?" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I most certainly am not, my dear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was slightly wounded soon after my arrival at the front. But I also found that my scientific knowledge could be of more service than my abilities as a soldier. So I came back to England and have been experimenting with gas bombs with that in mind. I assure you I have official permission." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then why have you been hiding and why did you come down here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the answer to both those questions, Frieda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see how you can say that, Henry, when you have never even tried to see me, or to let me know what had become of you. You knew I was suffering horribly for fear you might be hurt or dead or something and you wouldn't write me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are mistaken, I have seen you, my dear, many a time when you have passed this window and at least I have had the satisfaction of realizing you were well and happy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I am neither, Frieda protested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides I don't understand how you knew, unless, unless--do you mean Frank and Jack were both aware that you were here and never told me? They preferred I should suffer. I shall never forgive either of them, never." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are not to blame your sister or brother, Frieda, Professor Russell interrupted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have simply done what I asked, what I required of them. You came over to England to be rid of my presence. I had neither the desire nor the right to thrust myself upon you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I don't see why you didn't go and live somewhere else," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do wish, Henry, you would give me some tea. You seem to have an extraordinary looking little girl to look after you. And I feel very much overcome from the shock of hearing an explosion outside a strange house and then seeing your face floating in space on the inside. Moreover, if you are so extraordinarily scientific I should think you would know enough to go and wash that gas bomb out of your hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is scarcely a gas bomb inside my hand, Frieda. One of the chemicals simply went slightly wrong." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to take Henry Russell back to the United States with me in ten days, she remarked aloud, but in a very small whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know how I am going to manage him or the British Government, but I am going to, somehow. I thought I was bored with Henry and I was and I'll probably be again. But I suppose all women are bored with the men they live with sometimes. Anyhow, I had to think I had lost Henry to know I wanted to keep him. He does get a little upset now and then when I want my own way all the time, but really under the same circumstances I don't suppose any other man would be half so nice to me as Henry is. Besides, oh well, I believe I'm pretty fond of him." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see how Jack and Frank could have told you I was well, Henry, she said plaintively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't suppose you have noticed but I have lost a good many pounds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I had not noticed before, but I observe you have, the Professor returned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I trust there is nothing serious the matter. What is the doctor's opinion?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have not seen a doctor. Really, I have not spoken of this to any one before, Henry. But do you know I think, perhaps, I have not been well for a good many months, even before I left Chicago. Maybe that is what made me cross sometimes, Henry. Maybe that's why I ran away without telling you I was going. I really think I ought to have talked the matter over with you, Henry. You would have been quite willing for me to make Jack a visit wouldn't you, Henry, just as Frank is allowing Jack to go home to the ranch?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I didn't know this was a visit, Frieda. I thought you had gone away for good. Indeed, I am under the impression that you said you never wished to see me again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never could have really said that, Henry, or if I did, you were silly to think I meant it. I often say lots of things I don't mean. And I have wanted to see you lots lately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at me, Frieda, he ordered quietly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then you mean you don't love me any more, Henry, you can't forgive me for what I did," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mean any such thing, Frieda child. Moreover, you know perfectly well that I don't and that it is exceedingly reprehensible for you to go on flirting in this way with your own husband unless you also care for him." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Henry, if you say things like that to me oftener, I feel sure I will care for you more. But please get your hat and come with me now, I want to introduce you to a very dear, old friend of mine in Granchester. Afterwards, if your hand does not hurt, you must go up to Kent House with me to dinner. I intend to let Jack and Frank know that I can manage my own affairs and do not in the future intend to be kept in the dark as if I were a silly child." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rainbow Castle," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is still just the loveliest, homiest place in the world!" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a cup of coffee in the morning early, Jack. I have promised Ruth not to take you too far, but I've a new horse for you to try and I want you to have the first ride over the ranch with me, while the others are still asleep. You and I are the only ones who have ever really loved the dawn out here in God's country. Ruth has left some riding togs for you somewhere in your room." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be down in ten minutes, Jim. Is that the horse for me? Isn't he a beauty? But hitch yours and mine somewhere outside and open the Lodge door, I didn't lock it last night, and come in and start my coffee. I just opened my eyes this minute." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't anybody been doin' anything to you, you don't like, Boss? Jim demanded, purposely breaking into the old careless speech he had used before Ruth's coming to Rainbow Ranch to educate them all, and Jim more than any one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because if anyone has, you know you can always count on your old pardner." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is one of the most perfect creatures I ever saw, Jim. I don't care what other people say, I like our fine western horses better than any others in the world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try him, Jack," }, { "from": "human", "value": "His movement seems perfect, too, but I'll have to give him more of a test before I can decide." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you like him, Jack, the horse is a present from me. I got him and had him broken for you. I don't ever want anyone else to use him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jim, there never was anybody so good to me as you have always been, and no one who has ever understood me so well. I don't mean that there is much to understand, but what there is I know you believe the best of." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I don't expect there is anybody who began to know you as soon as I did, Jack," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose Jim tried to show you every horse and every cow on the ranch, Jack, Ruth began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you are not worn out, child. I told him to allow you one night's rest." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and after she has had breakfast I want to take Jack and everybody down to the Rainbow Mine. I always feel it belongs more to Ralph, and to me than to the others. Oh, simply because my husband was its first engineer." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember, Henry, when you and Ralph were more or less blown up going down the shaft of the old mine. It was after that, Frieda adopted you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had my legs broken didn't I, so I couldn't get away? Well, Frieda always prefers her victims helpless." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe this is far from the place where Frank and I discovered the first gold in Rainbow creek, Jack remarked drowsily, a little worn out from the excitement of the day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How filled the old ranch was with memories and thoughts of her husband!" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "When is Frank coming over to join you, Jack? Jean Merritt asked unexpectedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ralph hopes to get home from his work at the canal in a few weeks and it would be a great pleasure if he and Frank could be here at the same time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Frank, oh, Frank isn't coming at all, Jean. He couldn't possibly leave his own country now, while they are at war. There is so much he feels he ought to do." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all there is some advantage in being an old maid, one does not have to worry continually over being in the same place with one's husband. You will all have to come over to see my Indian School some day soon. Perhaps I am wedded to that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense, Olive, Frieda murmured," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, come now Frieda, you don't really believe anyone has such poor taste as that," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, perhaps the combination is prettiest after all. Vive is the only real beauty with her dark eyes and yellow hair." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe Vive really is the prettiest of all the children," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Britain" } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Olive? Jack asked sharply, as soon as she saw her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which one of the children is it? What has happened?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing to be seriously frightened about, Jack, Olive replied quietly," } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Vive dies do you think Frank will ever forgive me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see what Frank has to forgive? The point is will he ever forgive himself for having you go through all this alone?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I ought not to have brought Vive away. Still I wouldn't mind anything if only Frank were with me." } ]
34927	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is over," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please do not let anyone come with me, she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go outdoors alone." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Henry Russell! she exclaimed, trying to reveal both dignity and disdain, in spite of her ridiculous position," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear Frieda, you do me an injustice, he began," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, Henry; now that you have accomplished your purpose, I hope you will be good enough to leave me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer to see you safely through the woods. When we are nearer the house I may be able to find someone to take my place." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are many things I would like to talk over with you, Frieda, but this is not the time. Neither do I want you to think I meant to take an unfair advantage of you by forcing myself upon you without your knowledge. I think I scarcely realized myself just what I was doing. I am sorry you felt compelled to run away from home because we sometimes quarreled. I do not know just how much I was in the wrong at those times, but I fear you were not happy with me or you would not have let the fact that we differed about a good many things have made you wish to leave me. Please remember, Frieda, if there is ever a time when you wish to talk matters over with me, I shall be glad to come to you. I will not come again unless you summon me." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't tell Mrs. Naxie, Bryan, that I spoke of it, she volunteered as soon as she beheld the preparations," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank told me to tell you that he was sorry not to be able to come over with us this afternoon, Bryan, Jack announced a few moments later, when the four of them had gone out to select a place where tea could be served," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But for some reason or other he telephoned that he could not come down from London today. I don't know what is wrong with Frank lately. He has never been so absorbed in political matters. I am afraid Frieda and Olive will think he neglects his family disgracefully. Please tell them, Bryan, that he is sometimes an attentive husband." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I am rather glad Frank takes his work as a member of Parliament as the most important thing he has to do. After all, helping to make the laws of one's country is a pretty serious occupation. Which do you think more serious--Captain MacDonnell, being a soldier and fighting when it is necessary to defend the laws, or making them in the beginning?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Frieda, Jack whispered when they were safe from being overheard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would give a great deal if Bryan and Olive would learn to care for each other. Ordinarily I think it is horrid to be a matchmaker, but Bryan and Olive are both so lovely and you don't know what it would mean to me to have Olive live near me. It is heavenly these days, having you both here. You can't realize how lonely I get for you and my own country sometimes." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain MacDonnell and Olive look too much alike, she argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prefer marriages where the man and woman are contrasts." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BUT Henry cannot go; it is absurd! He never shot a gun in his life and besides I--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you must be mistaken about your husband's being unable to shoot, Frieda, Lord Kent answered dryly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As a matter of fact I believe he is an expert; he told me himself that he had taken prizes for marksmanship when he was a boy, but had never cared to use his skill for hunting. As for your saying he can't go; well, the truth is, Frieda, Professor Russell has already gone. He came in to see me a few days ago to say that he had volunteered and was about to be sent somewhere in France." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mean that Henry has joined the army--that he has crossed over to France without asking me how I would feel--without even coming to say good-bye," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, my dear child, how could your husband come to say good-bye to you when you have been steadfastly refusing to see him for weeks? Frank continued, still a little impatient over feminine unreasonableness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He told me to tell you his plans and that he had made all arrangements in case--" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you motor down to the station with me, please, Jack?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan is expecting to be here again this afternoon for a farewell visit, dear. He has been delayed for some reason or other but hopes to leave with his regiment tomorrow, Frank announced on the way to his train." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you know I think Bryan is a lucky fellow these days, not to have anyone very close to him--anyone who cares very much what becomes of him. Oh, of course, I should care, more than I like to think; but I mean no mother or father--no family." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should also care a great deal, Frank," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is a funny thing that Bryan has never married. He is an uncommonly fascinating fellow. Of course, he hasn't much money; but that ought not to stand in his way. He has his profession. Queer, when he was a boy he used to talk about being an artist; but there is a lot of difference between an artist and a soldier. He must be glad now of his choice. Sometimes I think Bryan has never married because he has never seen any woman as attractive as you are. He has almost said as much to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is nonsense, Frank. After all, you know Bryan is pretty young; there is no use talking as if he were a confirmed old bachelor." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I have one of Vive's blue ribbons to tie in my buttonhole, please, Lady Jacqueline? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lady Jacqueline being a title which Captain MacDonnell had originated for Jack, but which many other people also used." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Every knight, when he went off to the wars in the old days, wore his lady's colors. I should like to have Vive for my lady." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Won't you take a farewell ride with me this afternoon, Jack? Captain MacDonnell asked the next instant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It will be the best way to manage our good-bye." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'll go if you'll come back to dinner with Frank and the rest of us, she agreed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be ready in five minutes." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you would give this to Frank for me, Lady Jack, and if anything happens to me ask him to read it, and to let you read it afterwards if he thinks best. Sorry to be mysterious, but this is a kind of cranky wish of mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, Bryan. You know I have always felt rather like a big sister to you; I am nearly a year older. But, today I think I feel like your mother, she continued, trying to smile, but with her voice breaking a little." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you must promise me, if there is anything I can ever do for you later on you will let me know. In a way I believe I am almost envious of you, Bryan. I think I have wanted to be a boy ever since I could sit on the back of a horse and ride over our ranch with my father. That is why people have always called me 'Jack,' I suppose. Anyhow, just now, I think I would like to go out to meet a great adventure. I wonder what a woman's great adventure is. I presume it is marriage for most of us. At any rate Frank is terribly envious of you, Bryan. He has said so to me half a dozen times. He does not seem to know whether he ought to go to the front, which is what he wants to do, or to stay on here doing his work in Parliament. Of course, he ought to stay, Jack argued, repeating what she had been saying a good many times to her husband recently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There never was a time when a member of Parliament had such great work to do, and that is Frank's real duty." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange for Bryan to have confided this letter to us, Frank remarked, as he put it carefully away in a strong box where he kept his important papers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder what old Bryan has written? I never dreamed he had a secret in his life which he has never told to me. But, perhaps he wants us to do some favor or other for him. Truly I hope we may never have to open the letter." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Frieda?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I have just received a note from a young soldier to whom I sent the first pair of socks I ever made, she returned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He may not have originated the poem, but it is almost worth the trouble and the time I took on the socks. Do listen:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks, dear lady, for the socks you knit; Some socks, some fit. I used one for a hammock and the other for a mitt. I hope I meet you when I've done my bit, But where in the h... did you learn to knit?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if I am improving?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jimmie and I are going to drive down to the village to see old Dame Quick, she announced," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I promised to read to her this afternoon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What will you do with Jimmie while you read? He will never keep still," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, he and nurse will return back in the governess cart. I want to walk home. Don't worry if I am a little late," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope Frieda won't be too long. She does not know this country as I do," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure, I've been waitin' and longin' for the sight of you these two hours," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know you have had half a dozen visitors during the two hours you say you have been waiting, Mrs. Huggins, Frieda returned. For it was true that the tiny house and the old woman were the center of all the gossip in the village." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect you to tell me a lot of news." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is true these are news days in England and elsewhere. Times were, when the days might be dull without a birth or a death, or a mating. But now one wakes up to something stirrin' every day--a lad goin' off to the war, or maybe one gettin' killed; and the girls coomin' in to tell me their troubles; some of them just married, and some of them not married at all yet. But all of them worryin' their hearts out. Sure, and if war is goin' on forever--and it looks like it is--I'm for the women goin' into battle along with their men." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you have not told me any special news this afternoon, Frieda protested, having lifted her cup for a second helping of tea, and making up her mind that she could not think of herself while visiting, as she usually did at home." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My sister and brother always expect me to know something interesting after a visit to you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't care for gossip, she returned," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Since you came in I've been wonderin' whether certain information should be sent to Lord and Lady Kent. I don't think much of it myself, as there has been such a steady stream of spy talk these months past. But they are tellin' in Granchester that there is a man there who has taken a house a short distance from the village, on the road to Kent House. It seems he keeps to himself too much to please the village. He says he has been ill, and I'm sure has a right to a mite of peace if he wants it. It's only the village that's talking. Those higher up must know things are what they should be, since they don't bother him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose you tell my fortune, she suggested rather shyly. For some time past she had been thinking of just this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't you say you sometimes told the fortunes of the boys and girls in Granchester, and that a great many things you predict come true?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I tell the fortunes, child, of boys and girls whose grandfathers and grandmothers I once knew. That isn't difficult fortune telling. I know certain tricks in the faces, I remember what their own people thought and did long before their day. Like father, like son; or maybe like mother, like son; and like father, like daughter. But you-- The old woman shook her head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know nothing about you, child; or your country, or your people, or what you have made of life for yourself with that pretty face of yours." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well; just let the tea leaves show you a little," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have had too many of the things you wish without ever having to work for them, or to wait, little lady, she repeated slowly. Then she glanced down into the extended tea cup." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I see that you will have to lose something before you find out that you care for it. I also see a long journey, some clouds and at last a rainbow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the Rainbow Ranch is the name of my own home. I wonder if I have ever told you that? she inquired." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you are mistaken if you think I have had the things I wish." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Frank, I don't think you understand the situation in the United States, Jack argued, speaking good naturedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, we represent so many nationalities, so many differences of opinion and training, that we can't all think alike. The President is supposed to represent everybody." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nonsense, Frank interrupted his wife not too politely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The United States has been thinking about nothing but getting rich. They are a nation of shirkers, willing to stand back and let others do the work and suffer the loss." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are a good many millions of us for us all to be shirkers, Frank," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not afraid of anything in the world, are you, Jack?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goodness, Frank, what an extraordinary opinion you and a few other people have of me! I am one of the biggest cowards in the world about the things I am afraid of. I simply don't happen to be afraid of animals, as so many women are. And that is not a virtue, but because I was brought up with them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should like to know what you do fear, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am dreadfully afraid of the people I care about being angry with me, though you and the rest of my family may not believe it, as I am supposed to have once been a wilful person, she returned unexpectedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sometimes I wonder, Frank, just how much of a coward I would be, if I had either to give up what I thought was right or else to have some one seriously angry with me. I have not the courage of my convictions like Frieda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, Frank, if it is fair to Frieda not to let her know what has happened to Professor Russell? Sometimes I have thought she has worried more over his silence than we imagine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frieda deserves whatever may come to her. It is an old-fashioned axiom, dear, but all the more true for that reason: Frieda has made her bed; now let her lie upon it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But Frieda is hardly more than a child, Jack protested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides, that is a pretty hard rule to apply to people. I don't think you and I would like to have it applied to us if we were ever in any difficulty." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, Jack, it is not for us to decide anything concerning Frieda and her husband. That is for them. We are simply doing what Professor Russell has requested of us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but Frieda," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Frieda is receiving just what she asked for--silence. But you must not worry over Frieda. She will solve existence happily for herself soon enough. Almost any man would do anything and forgive anything in behalf of such blue eyes and yellow hair as Frieda's to say nothing of her Professor. I may pretend to be severe but I should probably forgive her as readily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sooner than you would me? Jack inquired and laughed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, of course, you would. Everybody always has as long as I can remember." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid you have had to do the forgiving recently, Jack. I expect I have been difficult. But I feel so torn these days wanting to be over in France doing the real work with fellows like Bryan, and at the same time wanting to be here with you and the babies and knowing I am perhaps more useful in London than I would be elsewhere." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, Frank, she answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Jack, I don't; but I thank you for understanding." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is from Bryan, I believe, Jack. Do tell me what he says." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan says he is all right and sends his love to the family, but more especially to his Lady Vive. He asks us all to write to him oftener if we can manage it, as we are his adopted family and he has no other. Frieda, he says your gift of socks is the most wonderful in all France. I actually believe Bryan is almost having a good time; but if he is not he is awfully brave." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gracious, Jack, Frieda exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As long as there is nothing the matter with Captain MacDonnell, I wouldn't shed any tears over him. You so seldom cry, it always makes me wretched when you do. I'll bet Jack has never shed any tears over you, Frank." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I am nothing but a civilian these days and Bryan is a soldier. I can't expect the same interest to be bestowed upon me, even by my own wife." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is Bryan, Frank then exclaimed without waiting to be asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had word from the War Office today that he had been mortally wounded." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sure, Frank, there can be no mistake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am afraid not, dear. Bryan was leading a charge out of his trench when a shell hit him. His own men carried him back to a field hospital." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the news only said that Bryan was fatally hurt--not that things were over?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but I'm afraid he may be by now, Frank answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent half a dozen cables for more news." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I won't believe the worst until it really happens." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bryan's letter, Frank, Jack remarked quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you think you ought to open it? He said that if anything happened to him you were to read it first, and afterwards I was to see the letter if you thought best. I remember he seemed much in earnest when he gave it to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know I had forgotten, Jack? But I don't think Bryan meant us to disturb the letter until we know that the worst has happened to him and we don't know this yet; we only fear it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you are mistaken, Frank. There must be something in Bryan's letter that he wants us to do for him. It may be something that would come afterwards, but it also may be something that we could do for him now. Of course you must judge, but this is the way I feel about it." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what to do, Jack, he argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Bryan still lives he may, of course, recover and I would not then like to feel that I have pryed into his secret. On the other hand, you may be right and Bryan may have made some simple request of us which we could carry out for him at once. Bryan is a sentimental chap always. I wish, this time, he had been more explicit." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Read this, Jack. It is just as well that you should know what is in it. Bryan must have been considerably upset over his farewells and the thought of what might lie ahead of him, or he would never have made such a request of us. He must have realized afterwards that the thing is impossible." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see what you find impossible, Frank, Jack answered, placing the letter inside the envelope and quickly returning it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was only waiting until we heard more news to ask you to let me go to Bryan, even if he had not made this request of us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to seem unkind, dear. In a way it is pretty hard to refuse what Bryan asks. Only he could not have appreciated just how much he was asking." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand what you mean, Frank. Certainly neither of us can dream of not agreeing. I know you will worry over the discomfort, perhaps even the danger of the trip to France for me. But hundreds of women have gone and are going every day to care for the soldiers who are entire strangers to them. Many times I have wanted to go myself before this, except for leaving you and my babies behind. But now I may only need to stay a little time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We won't discuss the matter any further please, Jack," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me your reason please, Frank. This isn't like you. You can't mean to be so selfish--even so cruel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry to have to say this to you, dear. I wish you could have been willing to do what I asked, without demanding my reason. But I can't let my wife go to Bryan; I can't let people think you and he care this much for each other. People would talk--there would be gossip. I am your husband and it is my place to safeguard you. You and Bryan never think of consequences--you are only impetuous children." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you mean-- Jack let her hands drop slowly from her husband's shoulders to her own sides," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I am sorry to disappoint you, because I do mean it, Jack, dear. I suppose it does seem narrow and worldly to you, with your wider ideas of freedom and loyalty. But hard as this may be for us both, you must abide by my decision." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, Frank, she answered quietly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll let you know as soon as I hear from the war office," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Jack? Are you going up to London to join Frank?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No; I am not going to Frank, she explained," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you won't approve what I am planning to do any more than Frank does, Jack continued," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope you won't be angry with me, Jack, and of course I cannot hope to influence you if Frank cannot; but I don't think you ought to do so serious a thing without Frank's consent. In any case, please don't go away without his knowing. You must know that this is not right and that Frank will probably be very hurt and angry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I realize you are right, Olive, and I am afraid Frank will be both the things you say, and more than you may realize. I know, also, that I ought to see him again and tell him definitely just what I intend to do and why I intend doing it. But candidly, if I do, I fear that Frank will not permit it. He is not an American husband, and in any event there would be a scene between us. Frank would not understand at first that this time I intend to keep to my determination. We might quarrel and I don't wish that. It would make me even more unhappy and not save me in any way from Frank's displeasure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, Jack, why do you think it is more important to do what Captain MacDonnell desires of you than what Frank wishes?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad you asked me that, Frieda, dear, she responded," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go ahead, Jack, then, and no matter what happens I'll stand by you and swear you've done the right thing to the bitter end. You have been more right than other people as long as I've known you. I would not pay any attention to Olive. I told you that Olive was getting to be an old maid and that old maids always take the men's side. Only you are not being rash, Jack, are you, so you won't have to suffer uncomfortable consequences afterwards?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll look after my babies for me, won't you, Olive? And Frieda, won't you try and get Frank into a good humor with me before I come back? I shall be gone only a few days; perhaps Bryan won't need me at all when I arrive. I am going up to London within two hours, but I'll get away from there as soon as I can and take the first channel boat possible. I must finish packing, but I'll see you again before I start." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somehow I wish Jack wouldn't. Maybe at the last moment she'll see Frank and change her mind, Frieda suggested, staring out at the winter landscape with her small nose pressed mournfully against the window pane like a discontented child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't understand Frank's disposition very well. He is so different from Henry. Then he has changed a great deal. We never thought of his being autocratic when Jack married him, but he seems rather that way to me lately, though he is terribly nice and I am fond of him. I wouldn't be, though, if he was ever the least bit disagreeable to Jack. She is much too good for him or any other man. Isn't it like her to go rushing off in this quixotic fashion, knowing that lots of people will misunderstand her, just because Captain MacDonnell would like to feel her presence beside him, if anything has to happen to him? Well, I suppose that is exactly what I felt when I rushed to her the moment I left Henry? Only if Frank decides to be horrid it would be unfortunate for us both to be having trouble with our husbands at the same time. I suppose people would say it was because we did not have the proper bringing up when we were children." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be absurd, Frieda, Olive answered irritably." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, Frank and Jack are not going to have any serious difficulty. She and Frank are quite different--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you ever get tired of saying that to me, Olive Van Mater? Of course Jack is different, but I don't see that Frank is entirely unlike other men. Oh, I know you'll be shocked and angry at this and so would Frank and Jack, if they ever heard; but just the same I think Frank Kent is a little bit jealous of Jack's friendship for Captain MacDonnell. He would rather die than confess it to himself. I at least give him the credit for not knowing it, but it's true just the same." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that is very horrid of you, Frieda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I thought you would think so. Still, I do wish it was a whole week from today and Jack was safely home again. I am frightened about her taking such a trip alone; and as for my attempting to get my brother-in-law into a good humor after he learns that his august Highness has been disobeyed--well, the task is beyond my humble powers. In any case, Olive, you can break the news of Jack's departure to him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack has written me a note telling me that she has gone to France. You both probably know I did not wish her to go. Please let us not speak of this matter again." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Frank, I am so glad to be at home again. It has all been so distressing. Poor Bryan is going to get well, but I fear he will hate it when he does, for he may never walk again. He does not know this yet." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am horribly sorry for Bryan," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are still angry with me, Frank? Jack queried, though the question was scarcely a necessary one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have not yet seen that I had the right to judge for myself in this thing about Bryan? After all, what possible wrong have I done? And I did give Bryan pleasure; he does not dream, of course, that I went to him without your consent." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, Frank, even if you do continue to disapprove of me and to think I did wrong to disobey you, won't you make friends with me? Please say I'm forgiven?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I presume, Jack, that you consider it a very simple matter for me to say I forgive you and to overlook your utter disregard of my wishes, and your deception in the matter. But I cannot see the thing in that light. You have not only wounded me, but you have made me ridiculous. To say I forgive you, or feel as I did before would not be the truth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, Frank," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you thinking about, Frieda? Certainly not of what I just said to you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still I was thinking of you, Frank, she answered, smiling," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps as a matter of vanity, yes, Frieda? But of course a good deal depends upon what one is thinking. What were you thinking of me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, only how unlike you and Henry are," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, considering the fact that you didn't find it possible to continue to live with 'Henry,' I suppose I ought to be flattered. Only as a matter of fact, Frieda, I admire Professor Russell very much." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yet even though that is true, Frank, Henry never took the tone with me of insisting that he was always right and I was always in the wrong. Do you know, Frank, I am beginning to think--oh well, Henry was never so horrid to me as you are to Jack. He isn't a bit of a bully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So you think I am 'horrid' to Jack and a bully besides, do you, Frieda?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course you are going to think I am interfering, Frank, and no one ever pays any real attention to what I say, but I just thought I'd tell you anyhow. You are making a big mistake. Of course I realize that you are not so silly as not to appreciate Jack, but I don't believe you have ever thought what it might mean to lose her. You see she isn't like most women, she really does not know how to quarrel for any length of time. But when she was hurt or seriously angry as a girl she used to keep still for a long time not saying a word. Then she used to do something unexpected." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been afraid lately that Jack might do something queer now, something no one of us dreams she would think of doing. She is so very unhappy. You remember, Frank, don't you, what a long time it took you to win Jack? I wonder if it might not take you even longer to win her back again!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot discuss my relations with Jack, even with you, Frieda. That is a matter between us alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Certainly I appreciate your point of view, Frank, from my own sad experience." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know I am silly, Frank, she confessed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are an infant, Frieda, Frank remarked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course Jack has been paying visits and has stayed too long. But perhaps I had best go and look for her, unless she has found a friend to act as an escort it is too late for her to be out alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But where are you going to look?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Bryan, one did not like to allow oneself to think of him too often these days, yet he must be brought back home as soon as possible," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is trouble in the big house, also, she said to herself, wagging her old head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Funny how when trouble of one kind gets loosed in the world, so many other kinds follow it." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was nothing more for him to do but to go home also," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Frank, is that you?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down for a little while will you please, Frank? The ground is not particularly damp in some places, I have been sitting here a long time." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not ill, are you, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was dizzy and very tired a little while ago, I don't know just how long. I sat down here to rest and fell asleep for a time. I am quite all right now." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is something I want to say to you, Frank. I have been making up my mind to speak of it for some time. This afternoon I knew I had to decide. I went off for a long walk and now I have decided." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to go home, Frank?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean I want to go back to the Rainbow ranch to see Jim and Ruth and Jean, but Jim most of all," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please don't answer, Frank, until I have explained to you a little better. I know it seems horrid to leave you alone and to take the babies away, when you are so worn out with your work and so sad over all the wretched tragedy of the war. You will miss the babies, even if you will not particularly miss me. Still I'll have to go, Frank. I can't live on with you not forgiving, not caring for me any more. I won't stay long unless you wish it and I'll come back whenever you send for me. But I must go; it has seemed to me lately as if I could not breathe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see until lately I never dreamed that when things came to a crisis, to a question of right, to a question of my judgment, or my conscience, you would not be willing to let me do as I decided and thought best. I knew you liked me to follow your way in little things and I never minded most times. Often I was glad to do as you wished and when I didn't agree to your way, I never considered the fact seriously one way or the other. But lately I have seen that if we go on living together, I have got to be a coward, a kind of traitor to myself by always appearing to agree with you, or else live with you and have you angry and dissatisfied with me. I cannot bear either. Marriage does not mean that to me, Frank. I have to get away for a little while to see if I can find out what I should do." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think this is a pretty severe punishment, Jack, if you think I am unfair. But you must let me take you home to Kent House now; Olive and Frieda are both dreadfully worried to know what has become of you." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly you don't show much consideration for Frank, Frieda protested when she first heard the news." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems to me that England is _his_ country and he has a good deal more work to do and goes through a lot more than you do, Jacqueline Ralston. I never could make up my mind to leave my husband under such circumstances." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know what you are thinking of, but it was quite different with Henry and me. He did not need me, he thought I was a butterfly and my wishing to go out and dance and do exciting things disturbed his work. He didn't allow me to go with other people because he thought it was his _duty_ to look after me. He said so, said I was too young to be expected to take care of myself. He wasn't a bit jealous like Frank, I shouldn't have minded a jealous husband. If I said he was jealous, I was only pretending because I wanted to seem interesting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frank jealous? Jack laughed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are too silly, Frieda." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just the same you'll be sorry and ashamed of yourself some day, Jack Ralston. You need not pretend anything to me, I understand the present situation perfectly. Frank was rather horrid to you and he ought not to be allowed to be a bully, but you could really twist him around your finger if you tried. You can now at any rate because he adores you. And Frank is pretty nice you know, most women would be glad to have him. After all he has a title and money, and men are going to be scarce when this war is over." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Frieda!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know it will look perfectly absurd for us both to go back home without husbands, Frieda tossed out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't mind half so much when Frank was around and there was at least one man in our family. But of course it looks now as if we had something the matter with us, horrid dispositions, so that no man could make up his mind to live with us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You have no right to assume I am behaving as you did, Frieda, because I want to go to the old ranch for a time. Frank has given me his consent, I've no idea of running away." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dame Quick" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you a deserter, Henry, hiding from justice?" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I most certainly am not, my dear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was slightly wounded soon after my arrival at the front. But I also found that my scientific knowledge could be of more service than my abilities as a soldier. So I came back to England and have been experimenting with gas bombs with that in mind. I assure you I have official permission." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then why have you been hiding and why did you come down here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are the answer to both those questions, Frieda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see how you can say that, Henry, when you have never even tried to see me, or to let me know what had become of you. You knew I was suffering horribly for fear you might be hurt or dead or something and you wouldn't write me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are mistaken, I have seen you, my dear, many a time when you have passed this window and at least I have had the satisfaction of realizing you were well and happy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I am neither, Frieda protested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Besides I don't understand how you knew, unless, unless--do you mean Frank and Jack were both aware that you were here and never told me? They preferred I should suffer. I shall never forgive either of them, never." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are not to blame your sister or brother, Frieda, Professor Russell interrupted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have simply done what I asked, what I required of them. You came over to England to be rid of my presence. I had neither the desire nor the right to thrust myself upon you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I don't see why you didn't go and live somewhere else," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do wish, Henry, you would give me some tea. You seem to have an extraordinary looking little girl to look after you. And I feel very much overcome from the shock of hearing an explosion outside a strange house and then seeing your face floating in space on the inside. Moreover, if you are so extraordinarily scientific I should think you would know enough to go and wash that gas bomb out of your hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is scarcely a gas bomb inside my hand, Frieda. One of the chemicals simply went slightly wrong." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to take Henry Russell back to the United States with me in ten days, she remarked aloud, but in a very small whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know how I am going to manage him or the British Government, but I am going to, somehow. I thought I was bored with Henry and I was and I'll probably be again. But I suppose all women are bored with the men they live with sometimes. Anyhow, I had to think I had lost Henry to know I wanted to keep him. He does get a little upset now and then when I want my own way all the time, but really under the same circumstances I don't suppose any other man would be half so nice to me as Henry is. Besides, oh well, I believe I'm pretty fond of him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't see how Jack and Frank could have told you I was well, Henry, she said plaintively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't suppose you have noticed but I have lost a good many pounds." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I had not noticed before, but I observe you have, the Professor returned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I trust there is nothing serious the matter. What is the doctor's opinion?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have not seen a doctor. Really, I have not spoken of this to any one before, Henry. But do you know I think, perhaps, I have not been well for a good many months, even before I left Chicago. Maybe that is what made me cross sometimes, Henry. Maybe that's why I ran away without telling you I was going. I really think I ought to have talked the matter over with you, Henry. You would have been quite willing for me to make Jack a visit wouldn't you, Henry, just as Frank is allowing Jack to go home to the ranch?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I didn't know this was a visit, Frieda. I thought you had gone away for good. Indeed, I am under the impression that you said you never wished to see me again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never could have really said that, Henry, or if I did, you were silly to think I meant it. I often say lots of things I don't mean. And I have wanted to see you lots lately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at me, Frieda, he ordered quietly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then you mean you don't love me any more, Henry, you can't forgive me for what I did," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mean any such thing, Frieda child. Moreover, you know perfectly well that I don't and that it is exceedingly reprehensible for you to go on flirting in this way with your own husband unless you also care for him." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Henry, if you say things like that to me oftener, I feel sure I will care for you more. But please get your hat and come with me now, I want to introduce you to a very dear, old friend of mine in Granchester. Afterwards, if your hand does not hurt, you must go up to Kent House with me to dinner. I intend to let Jack and Frank know that I can manage my own affairs and do not in the future intend to be kept in the dark as if I were a silly child." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rainbow Castle," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is still just the loveliest, homiest place in the world!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a cup of coffee in the morning early, Jack. I have promised Ruth not to take you too far, but I've a new horse for you to try and I want you to have the first ride over the ranch with me, while the others are still asleep. You and I are the only ones who have ever really loved the dawn out here in God's country. Ruth has left some riding togs for you somewhere in your room." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be down in ten minutes, Jim. Is that the horse for me? Isn't he a beauty? But hitch yours and mine somewhere outside and open the Lodge door, I didn't lock it last night, and come in and start my coffee. I just opened my eyes this minute." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't anybody been doin' anything to you, you don't like, Boss? Jim demanded, purposely breaking into the old careless speech he had used before Ruth's coming to Rainbow Ranch to educate them all, and Jim more than any one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because if anyone has, you know you can always count on your old pardner." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is one of the most perfect creatures I ever saw, Jim. I don't care what other people say, I like our fine western horses better than any others in the world." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try him, Jack," }, { "from": "human", "value": "His movement seems perfect, too, but I'll have to give him more of a test before I can decide." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you like him, Jack, the horse is a present from me. I got him and had him broken for you. I don't ever want anyone else to use him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jim, there never was anybody so good to me as you have always been, and no one who has ever understood me so well. I don't mean that there is much to understand, but what there is I know you believe the best of." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I don't expect there is anybody who began to know you as soon as I did, Jack," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose Jim tried to show you every horse and every cow on the ranch, Jack, Ruth began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you are not worn out, child. I told him to allow you one night's rest." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and after she has had breakfast I want to take Jack and everybody down to the Rainbow Mine. I always feel it belongs more to Ralph, and to me than to the others. Oh, simply because my husband was its first engineer." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember, Henry, when you and Ralph were more or less blown up going down the shaft of the old mine. It was after that, Frieda adopted you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had my legs broken didn't I, so I couldn't get away? Well, Frieda always prefers her victims helpless." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe this is far from the place where Frank and I discovered the first gold in Rainbow creek, Jack remarked drowsily, a little worn out from the excitement of the day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How filled the old ranch was with memories and thoughts of her husband!" } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When is Frank coming over to join you, Jack? Jean Merritt asked unexpectedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ralph hopes to get home from his work at the canal in a few weeks and it would be a great pleasure if he and Frank could be here at the same time." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Frank, oh, Frank isn't coming at all, Jean. He couldn't possibly leave his own country now, while they are at war. There is so much he feels he ought to do." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all there is some advantage in being an old maid, one does not have to worry continually over being in the same place with one's husband. You will all have to come over to see my Indian School some day soon. Perhaps I am wedded to that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nonsense, Olive, Frieda murmured," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, come now Frieda, you don't really believe anyone has such poor taste as that," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, well, perhaps the combination is prettiest after all. Vive is the only real beauty with her dark eyes and yellow hair." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe Vive really is the prettiest of all the children," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Olive? Jack asked sharply, as soon as she saw her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which one of the children is it? What has happened?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing to be seriously frightened about, Jack, Olive replied quietly," } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If Vive dies do you think Frank will ever forgive me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't see what Frank has to forgive? The point is will he ever forgive himself for having you go through all this alone?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I ought not to have brought Vive away. Still I wouldn't mind anything if only Frank were with me." } ]

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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is over," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please do not let anyone come with me, she asked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I must go outdoors alone." } ]