Still Working on Three Lives

I am slogging through Gertrude Stein's book - I thought I would finish it over the weekend but didn't read as much as I expected to. The Melanctha story is getting more repetitive as it goes along. Melanctha and Jeff Campbell, the man she is in love with, seem to have the same conversation over and over. They also like to say each others' names many times during the conversation which seems awkward to me. Hopefully I will finish soon.