human
How do you do, she said, in a soft, toneless sort of voice which matched her poor, toneless, utterly downtrodden personality.
gpt
Your stepmother, Miss Duggan? She is in the study, I suppose? I have her embroidery silks, and she wanted them immediately. But it took such a time to get them disentangled. Master Cyril was playing with them last night. I--oh, I do hope she won't be angry!
human
Don't worry, Miss McCall. Rome won't fall, you know, even if she does speak an unkind word to you in her hasty fashion, gave back Maud Duggan, with a kindly pressure of one hand upon the frail girl's arm.
gpt
And she's busy just now with Sir Andrew. Looking over some accounts, I believe. I should wait for her in her boudoir, if I were you. She's bound to ring if she wants you.
human
Yes, perhaps that would be better.