human
Do you think the Empress would take a girl of eight?
gpt
Not unless you could be used as a mascot or a school monkey, returned Marjorie.
human
You might come in handy at the nursing lectures, when we get to the chapter on 'How to Wash and Dress a Baby', or you'd do to practise bandaging on. Otherwise you'd be considerably in the way.
gpt
Don't be horrid! pouted Joan.
human
I'm to go to Brackenfield some time. Mother said so.
gpt
You'll have to wait five years yet, my hearty. Why, do you know, even Dona is called a kiddie at Brackenfield?
human
Dona!
gpt
Yes, some of the girls look almost as old as Nora, and they've turned up their hair. It's a fact. You needn't stare.
human
You'll go all in good time, poor old Baba, said Dona.
gpt
You wouldn't like to be in a form all by yourself, without any other little girls, and there's no room for a preparatory unless they build, and that's not possible in war-time. You must peg on for a while with Miss Hazelwood, and then perhaps Mother'll send you to a day school. After all, you know, it's something to be the youngest in the family. You score over that.