human
Don't you see that they have gone off and left the front door unlocked? said Mrs. Van Dorn, with inflections of embarrassment, eagerness, and impatience. If she and Mrs. Lee had been, as of yore, school-children together, she would certainly have said,
gpt
You ninny!
human
Why! returned Mrs. Lee, with a sort of gasp. She saw then that the front door was not only unlocked, but slightly ajar.
gpt
Do you suppose they really are not at home?
human
Of course they are not at home.
gpt
Would they go away and leave the front door unlocked?
human
They have.
gpt
They might be in the back part of the house, and not have heard the bell,
human
I know this house as well as I do my own. You know how much I used to be here when the Ranger girls were alive. There is not a room in this house where anybody with ears can't hear the bell.
gpt
Well, I suppose you must be right, said she.
human
There can't be anybody at home; but it is strange they went off and did not even shut the front door.
gpt
I don't know what the Ranger girls would have said, if they knew it. They would have had a fit at the bare idea of going away for ever so short a time, and leaving the house and furniture alone and the door unlocked.
human
Their furniture is here now, I suppose?
gpt
Yes, I suppose so--some of it, anyway, but I don't know how much furniture these people bought, of course.
human
Mr. Lee said he heard they had such magnificent things.
gpt
I heard so, but you hear a good deal that isn't so in Banbridge!
human
That is true. I suppose you knew the house and the Ranger girls' furniture so well that you could tell at a glance what was new and what wasn't?
gpt
Yes, I could.
human
Can you see him?
gpt
Yes. I think he's asleep. He is sitting with his head all bent over.
human
He is--not--looking?
gpt
No.