human
Will you send me off with the assurance that at least my friendship is still something to you? he asked her.
gpt
You can be as independent as you like, but you need friends. Or, if that has small weight with you, let me appeal to your generosity. I need your friendship even more than you need mine.
human
Unhappy Mr. Brant. She was smiling.
gpt
So few friends, so few pleasures, he needs poor Charlotte Ruston's support!
human
Poor Charlotte Ruston is a greater inspiration to Eugene Brant's good work than any dozen of his fashionable patrons.
gpt
I am honoured--truly. And, of course, we are friends, the best of friends. I will send you the print soon. Thank you for coming. You have helped me very much.
human
I have something to tell you.
gpt
You are worth looking at, in those beautiful furs, with the frost on your cheeks, she said, drawing Ellen in to the fire, and passing a caressing hand over the rich softness of her sleeve.
human
Furry hat and furry gloves--and furry boots, too, probably--let me see? I thought so, as she examined Ellen's footgear.
gpt
You could start on a trip to Greenland, this minute, and not freeze so much as the tip of your nose, behind that wonderful muff.
human
It will be Greenland on the Atlantic liner next week, said Ellen, drawing off the enveloping coat at Charlotte's motion, and seating herself in Granny's winged chair.
gpt
The trip to Germany is on foot, at last. Red has had to put it off so many times I began to think we shouldn't get away this year at all. But he's taken our passage now, and vows that nothing shall hinder. So I'm packing in rather a hurry, for we mean to be off on Saturday, though we shall not sail until Tuesday. One can always use a day or two in New York.
human
Lucky mortals. I wish I were going with you. Charlotte said it gayly, but her eyes were suddenly wistful.
gpt
How long shall you stay? I shall miss you horribly.
human
I wish you were going, dear. Nothing could make me happier. We should be a great party then, for Dr. Leaver goes with us. It's a sudden decision on his part. Red wrote him of certain work he wanted to do in the clinics and urged him to go along, thinking it would be just the thing for him now, after plunging into work again with such a will. You know they spent a year there together, ten years ago, and Dr. Leaver wrote that the thought of going over the old scenes with Red tempted him beyond resistance. He's been across twice since, but only for a special purpose of study. Of course both will do more or less observing in clinics now, but I imagine they will get in a bit of merrymaking together. If I only had you to go about with me while they were busy I should ask nothing better.
gpt
Shall you be gone all winter?
human
Oh, no; only two months in all. Neither Red nor 'Jack'--as he always calls him--feel that they can spare longer than that, this time. So by the first of March you will see us returning to our own fireside, and probably glad enough to get back to it. German fires, as I remember them, are by no means as hot as American ones. And that brings me to my plan for you and Granny. I want you to come over and live in the house in our absence. There'll be only Cynthia there, for Bob is to stay with Martha. He will be happier over there with her boys than with Cynthia. So you will have the whole house to yourselves and can be as snug as possible all through the heaviest part of the winter.