human
Wait, oh, wait, my bonny maid, and Elizabeth caught her arm.
gpt
Why, Dolly, you have been crying!
human
Yes, I am an awful goose. But you see my room-mate has come, and--
gpt
I saw her, she hardly strikes me as being your style, but she will be quiet and inoffensive, I imagine.
human
Quiet and inoffensive? Dolly gave a hysterical laugh.
gpt
Just wait until you see my room; all of my pretty things are reposing on my bed now, and that sitting-room is too awful to contemplate.
human
Dorothy Alden, are you in earnest?
gpt
Yes, I am. Of course, I suppose I had taken possession of it rather coolly, but at least it is half mine.
human
Didn't you give her to understand that?
gpt
No, I didn't. I was very angry, and I remembered that Mother made me promise to think twice before I acted, when I got furious. I shall propose something, though, when I go back. We might take the room by alternate weeks, or each of us trim a half of it. Which do you think would be the better plan?
human
Either is bad, Elizabeth said decisively.
gpt
Why, oh, why, were we not put together? You could have had your things then in peace, and it would have saved me all the bother I am having now. I didn't think about my room before I came, and now that Miss Ainsworth has nothing to liven us up with either, we look as prim as a Quaker meeting-house. I have ordered some things, however, that will make us gorgeous. What do you say to a yellow room?
human
I say that it will be handsome if your room-mate leaves the arrangement in your hands.
gpt
I made sure of that before I ordered anything, Elizabeth said, with a wise nod.
human
She was very willing that I should do all I wished, and on that understanding I went ahead.