human
Grandmother, she said at last, after she had sat for some minutes staring straight ahead of her, and looking, as Leicester said,
gpt
human
Grandmother, I think we are old enough now,--at any rate I am,--to know something about our income. How much money do we have a year?
gpt
That's easily told, my child; since your grandfather's death we have very little. I own the house on Fifty-eighth Street, but from the rent of that I have to pay taxes and repairs. Of course Mr. Lloyd attends to all these matters, and his judgment is always right, but I can't help thinking there is very little profit in that house.
human
Wouldn't it be better to sell that house, and invest the money in some other way?
gpt
Mr. Lloyd says not, dearie, and of course he knows. Then besides that, I own the large hotel property which your grandfather bought a few years before he died. But as I cannot rent it, and cannot sell it, it is not only no source of income to me, but it is a great expense.
human
Oh, 'Our Domain' up in the mountains,
gpt
Yes, 'Our Domain'; but I wish it were the Domain of somebody else,
human
Our Domain,