human
When do you go to Melton?
gpt
I can't leave my ewe lamb yet, she answered.
human
D'you know, last night I was up with him until nearly three, considering which I think I'm looking remarkably fresh to-night.... Besides, David hasn't _asked_ me to come....
gpt
Does Mr. Beresford live here? She was answered with a mischievous nod.
human
My dear, you know I always say right out whatever's in my mind; well, I don't think you ought to be doing that. With that blessed creature of a husband here----
gpt
But he _brought_ Peter here and _kept_ him here and finally _left_ him here--whether I liked it or not, Peter dear. Besides, darling Lady Maitland, I have Mr. Oakleigh to chaperon us, and George drops in every few hours to see that I'm not disgracing his precious David.... George once said that I atoned for the number of my flirtations by the excellence of my technique, she went on irrelevantly.
human
I think he'd just fallen out of love with me and pretended that he never _had_ been in love with me and never would be. You think I'm not good enough for David, don't you? she demanded of me.
gpt
I think he got the wife he deserved, and he'll tell you that's the finest compliment anyone can pay him.
human
I'll ask him, if I remember. I'm going to Melton next week. Have you any message for him?
gpt
Tell him--exactly what you think of me, she suggested with dancing eyes.
human
It'll amuse him much more than a message.
gpt
Are you going down to him this term?
human
I'm too busy, and he doesn't want me, or he'd have sent for me long ago. Not that I should have gone, of course.... She glanced quickly round to satisfy herself that the others were absorbed in their own conversations; then lowered her voice and laid her hand on my sleeve.
gpt
Mr. Stornaway, you _do_ agree with me that it's absolute rot for him to be there, don't you? Old Mr. Oakleigh's offered him any money he wants--again and again; I've got five hundred a year from father; he could wipe out what he calls his debts and live here with the utmost ease. And he ought to be in London, he ought to be in the House; there are all sorts of jobs that he could get in the City.... If you want a message, tell him that he must choose Melton or me, she went on with a pout and a rising voice.
human
If he hasn't chucked Melton by Christmas, I shall chuck him. Tell him that I shall elope to Sloane Square--I don't believe _any_one's ever eloped to Sloane Square, but it's the handiest place in the world; even the Hounslow and Barking non-stop trains stop there,--so sweet of them, I always think--I shall go there with Peter and live in his flat and star in revue where I shall be an amazing draw, you know; and Colonel Grayle would scowl at me from the stage box, and, darling Lady Maitland, you'd boom me and invite fashionable clergymen to meet me at lunch, and George would have his car at the stage door to take me home--I don't know that I _shall_ wait till Christmas.