human
Well, my dear George, she said.
gpt
Here's the first of them gone. I hope you're as pleased about it as you ought to be. You won't like losing the child, but you couldn't expect to keep her with you always, and she's married just the right sort of man.
human
Wonderful powers of observation you have, Mary, he said.
gpt
I shouldn't like to disappoint you in any way, and I'm glad you're pleased with me.
human
Ah now you're being sarcastic, but I'm sure I don't know what for. I'll behave handsomely to you, and admit that you turned out to be right a year ago, and all the rest of us turned out to be wrong, including B herself, apparently. I've never seen a girl more devoted to the man she's going to marry. Perfectly beautiful, I call it. She hasn't got a thought for anybody else. She'll make him a splendid wife, and I must say you deserve a great deal of credit for the way in which you've brought up _all_ your girls. They have learnt to be everything to you, and I expect you've wanted a good deal of humouring, as all men do, though it doesn't show on the surface. If they have been able to manage you so well, they'll know how to manage their husbands, which most of us have to learn after we're married to them. I'm sure the trouble I had first of all with my dear old James, before I got into his ways--
gpt
Or he got into yours,
human
Now, George, she said,
gpt
The Bank Rate is very satisfactory at present, said Grafton.
human
I think both James and I are as happy as we can expect to be.
gpt
This is a more satisfactory marriage than that would have been, even if M. de Lassigny had been everything you could have wished him to be, she said.
human
I am glad it has come about so quickly, and so naturally, George. I did say to you, I remember, that her first love meant so much to a girl that if she were disappointed in it no other love could be quite the same to her. But you seem to have judged more rightly than I even over that, which is more of a woman's question than a man's. I suppose it is because you have always had such sympathy with your girls. I confess that I should never have expected to come to Beatrix's wedding within a few months and find her so entirely cured of that other affair. She _was_ very deeply in love, I know, and in the nicest sweetest sort of way; but she seems still more deeply in love now.
gpt
Well, you see she's found the right fellow, said Grafton.
human
He's worth what she gives him. The other fellow wasn't; but I don't think she'd really given him everything; she only thought she had.
gpt
You're a wise man, George. Women have much more to give to those they love than they have any idea of themselves at first. But men don't usually know that. And only the best sort of men bring it out. B is a darling, but it would make a great deal of difference whom she married. I do think now that with Lassigny she would just have developed as a charming delightful woman, but rather of the butterfly order--even if everything had gone right with their married life. But I think Dick will make her. She will show very fine qualities by and bye. He will bring them out.
human
I hope he will,
gpt
Well, my dear friend, he said,
human
What I like about all your girls, Mr. Grafton, said the Bishop's wife,
gpt
That's a very handsome tribute, said Grafton.
human
But I think it's deserved.
gpt
I've never seen anybody look happier than the little bride, she went on.
human
If all the marriages you have solemnised, my dear, bid fair to turn out so satisfactorily as this one--!
gpt
Yes, said the Bishop.
human
Marriage is a blessed state where there's complete love and trust. I think one could say that neither of these two would be complete without it.
gpt
Or without one another, said Viola.
human
Gerry, dear, I thought we were the most satisfactory couple you could find anywhere, but Dick and B have advantages over us. He is not so harum-scarum as you are, and she is much prettier and nicer than I am.
gpt
Gentle fisher-maiden, sang Prescott.
human
But she's a sweet thing, and deserves all the happiness she can get. I think she's found the right man to give it her too. His Lordship and I did a very good thing when we spliced them up. I'm all for making everybody happy.