human
I promise, she said,
gpt
Of course I told you, Rhoda Polly. Who else could I have told?
human
Do you know it is rather a pity not to tell mother, she said at last.
gpt
She does not interfere, but she moderates and eases off the hard places. She has a great deal of influence in a quiet way--more than any-one--and she would never tell a soul. I really think that it would do Alida more good than anything else to have mother on our side from the first. We are all trumpeters like father (except perhaps Hugh, who is not like any of our brood), but it is mother who tells the trumpets when to stop sounding.