human
Does it mean you aren't ever going to be married?
gpt
It means exactly that. Miss Thorley's pretty lips were pressed closer together.
human
Work, Mary Rose, is the most important thing in life.
gpt
Aren't you ever going to make a home for a family? she cried. She couldn't believe that was what Miss Thorley meant and she dropped a jam jar.
human
You don't have to stop work to do it, she cried eagerly and helpfully after she had retrieved the jar.
gpt
Mrs. Evans, she's Gladys' mother, says she'd think the millennium was here if she didn't have any work to do. She has five children at home and three in the cemetery. Miss Thorley shuddered.
human
She can cook and sew and sweep and play the piano and she belongs to the Woman's Club and the Missionary Society and the Revolution Daughters and the Presbyterian Church. You don't ever have to stop working to make a home for a family,
gpt
That isn't the kind of work I care for, and she shrugged her shoulders.
human
I should think your Mrs. Evans would die.
gpt
She hasn't time to die, Mary Rose told her seriously.
human
She's too busy taking care of Mr. Evans and her family and helping other people. She's a fine woman, everyone said in Mifflin. When I grow up I want to be just like her,
gpt
Oh, Mary Rose! You want to be something besides a drudge. Women have other things to do now but cook and sew and look after crying babies.
human
Babies don't cry unless there's a pin sticking into them or they have the colic, and, anyway, I think babies are the dearest things God ever made. I'd like to have twelve when I grow up, six boys and six girls. I don't ever want an only child. It's too lonesome. Don't you ever get lonesome, Miss Thorley?
gpt
I have my work,
human
All the same I don't understand just what Mr. Jerry meant.