human
As your brother! he cried, offering her his hand.
gpt
Why, it is far--far more than I could have ventured to hope. Yes, I will come as your brother. And now, although you know so much about me, you have told me nothing about yourself--not even your name.
human
My name is Iris Aglen.
gpt
Iris! It is a pretty name!
human
It was, I believe, my grandmother's. But I never saw her, and I do not know who or what my father's relations are.
gpt
Iris Aglen! he repeated.
human
Iris was the Herald of the Gods, and the rainbow was constructed on purpose to serve her for a way from Heaven to the Earth.
gpt
Mathematicians do not allow that,
human
I don't know any mathematics. But now I understand in what school you learned your heraldry. You are Queen-at-Arms at least, and Herald to the Gods of Olympus.
gpt
Thank you, Mr. Arbuthnot, Iris replied.
human
I learned my heraldry of my grandfather, who taught himself from the books he sells. And my mathematics I learned of Lala Roy, who is our lodger, and a learned Hindoo gentleman. My father is dead--and my mother as well--and I have no friends in the world except these two old men, who love me, and have done their best to spoil me.