human
Dad, she said very quietly,
gpt
You'd be no daughter of mine if you had,
human
Then what happened is just this: I wanted to go to that fight last night and Bob wouldn't take me. He was so awfully uppish about it that I decided to go myself; I like a good fight, you know. I didn't dare go as a girl, so I put on Dicky's fishing suit--the old one--and sneaked out the back door, after you thought I was in bed. Then I got a messenger boy and managed to find a ticket for the fight. And I went, said Mary,
gpt
You went alone to a prize fight?
human
I don't know just what it meant, but I was curious enough to come up here and listen; and when I didn't appreciate what he was offering, Mr. Fry got mad. He told me he'd keep me here until I did, so I--I just went to bed and counted on getting out overnight, somehow. I tried it and I missed fire, and this morning he discovered that I was a girl. That's the whole story; we've all been trying to get me out of here ever since--and I'm still here!
gpt
But the trunk----
human
I was in the trunk, said Mary.
gpt
We thought I could get to Felice's room that way, but Felice was gone, so Wilkins brought me back. She looked at her father steadily and almost confidently.
human
That weird tale about having me drugged was just to save me, dad, and maybe if the door hadn't blown open I'd have been home about three and swearing to it. That's all. Mr. Fry--Mr. Boller, too--have been too nice for words, concluded Mary, stretching a point.
gpt
There isn't a thing to blame them for--and I never could have believed that Mr. Fry was capable of a lovely lie like that.