human
All right, dearest, he answered quickly.
gpt
I'm a brute, I know, but--you're mine now. Will you play for me? I believe I'm fond of music.
human
Of course you are. But first, let's go upstairs. I'm almost as proud of our guest-rooms as of this.
gpt
Guest-rooms? repeated Burns, a few minutes later, when he had examined everything in the living-room and pronounced all things excellent.
human
We're to have guests, are we? But not right away?
gpt
I thought you'd be eager to entertain those bachelor friends you mentioned, so I lost no time in getting a second room ready for them.
human
Well, I don't know. Burns was mounting the stairs, his arm about his wife's shoulders.
gpt
By the way, Ellen, I don't believe I ever went up these stairs before. Comfortable, aren't they? I'm glad there's covering on them. I never like to hear people racketing up and down bare stairs, be they never so polished and fine. That comes of my instincts for quiet on my patients' account, I suppose. About the guests--we don't need to have any for a year or two, do we?
human
Why, Red! Ellen began to laugh.
gpt
I thought you were the most hospitable man in the world.
human
All in good time, agreed her husband, comfortably. He looked in at the door of the gray-and-rose room, as he spoke.
gpt
Well, well! he ejaculated.
human
Well, well!
gpt
Would you mind going over there and sitting down in that willow chair with the high back?