human
I suppose I'm an impressionable chap, he said,
gpt
And you couldn't have spared enough of that to furnish a room with?
human
I'll trust you to corner me, every time, he said.
gpt
Yes, I could have spared love enough--no doubt of that. But it seems as if it were the man who should put the house in order for the woman he brings home.
human
You have excellent taste, said she demurely,
gpt
Every minute I am in it. And from the time I first begin to think about it, coming toward it. Home! It's Paradise! This great, deep, all-embracing blue thing we're sitting in--is it made of down and velvet?
human
Precisely that. Velvet to cover it, down in the pillows. I hope you'll have many a splendid nap here.
gpt
You'll spoil me, he declared,
human
I know. James Macauley has told me more than one tale of hours spent there, when you needed sounder sleep. It's a hard life, and it's going to be my delight to try to make it easier.
gpt
It's not a hard life, dear,--it's one of many compensations. And now that I have one permanent compensation I'm never going to think I'm being badly used, no matter what goes wrong. Come, let's stroll about. I want to look at every separate thing. This piano--surely the sum I gave you didn't cover that? It looks like one of the sort that are not bought two-for-a-quarter.
human
No, Red, that was mine. It came from my old home with Aunt Lucy--that and the desk-bookcase, and two of the chairs. And Aunt Lucy gave me this big rug, made from the old drawing-room carpet. I built the whole room on the rug colourings. You don't mind, do you, dear?--my using these few things that belonged to me in my girlhood, in South Carolina?
gpt
In your girlhood? Not--in your Washington life?
human
No, Red.