conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  We parted ways with Lilly at the entrance of the palace. Claire didn’t open her mouth to speak again until we were in the carriage, headed home.
conversations.prefix: Narrator:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Rae… You took that joke too far,” she said, in a tone of fond concern that I’d never heard her use before.
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Joke? What are you talking about?”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “You know what I’m talking about! Rejecting Master Rod’s proposal!”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I can’t marry someone I’m not even interested in.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Marriage isn’t just about what you want! If you were to marry into the royal family, imagine how happy it would make your parents…”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  I hadn’t even thought about it from that angle. “I can’t say for certain…” I said, “but I think my parents would respect my decision.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Of course they would. Your parents are wonderful. But are you content to let them spoil you so? Don’t you want to make them happy?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Well…” This was really driving home the difference between Claire’s values and mine.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  To Claire, marrying advantageously meant repaying the family who had raised her. My casual refusal of Rod’s proposal had, to her, been so unimaginable that it looked insincere. What could I do…?
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “But, Miss Claire…I only want to marry you.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Rae, listen carefully,” Claire said seriously. She straightened her posture. “I understand that you are in love with me. I think it wonderful, even. But marriage is a completely separate issue.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Not to me.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “No. Love may be indulged to a certain degree of freedom. But individual desire is irrelevant to marriage.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Miss Claire…”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “You must accept Rod’s proposal. Being married would not obligate you to end your relationship with me. On the contrary, if you were to become royalty, our relationship might even—”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Miss Claire!” I think that was the first time I’d raised my voice to interrupt Claire. She stopped short, startled. “To me, marriage is just as—no, even more—intimate than love,” I said.
conversations.prefix: Rae: