human
I suppose it was when you and she went off after dinner? You needn't have been so darned quiet about it! What's the good of being so--mum about everything? Why didn't you come back and tell? You're not ashamed of it, are you?
gpt
A man doesn't tell a thing like that,
human
Well! David snorted,
gpt
I suppose some time you'll be married?
human
Right off.
gpt
Huh! said David;
human
I'll be seventeen next May.
gpt
Seventeen! What's seventeen? I'm pretty near eighteen, and I haven't thought of being married;--at least to anybody in particular.
human
You couldn't, Blair said coldly;
gpt
I thought you and Elizabeth were kind of off at dinner. You didn't talk to each other at all. I thought you were both huffy; and instead of that--
human
That damned dinner! Blair said, dropping his love-affair for his grievance. Blair's toga virilis, assumed in that hot moment in the hall, was profanity of sorts.
gpt
David, I'm going to clear out. I can't stand this sort of thing. I'll go and live at a hotel till I go to college; I'll--
human
Thought you were going to get married?
gpt
Gorry! he said blankly. He was honestly dismayed.
human
Look here, he began,
gpt
I didn't know that _you_--
human
I don't know what you're talking about, David broke in contemptuously;
gpt
I'll get out of this cursed noise,