human
I cannot sit, she said.
gpt
I am excited--greatly excited. This looks to me in the light of a wrong.
human
Who do you think has committed the wrong, Charlotte?
gpt
There, now, she said with a sigh of relief,
human
I can see your face. It is dreadful to speak to any one in the dark. Uncle Jasper, if I had so near a relation living all these years why was I never told of it? I have over and over again longed for a sister, and it seems I had one or one who might have been to me a sister. Why was I kept in ignorance of her very existence?
gpt
You are like all women--unreasonable, Lottie. I am glad to find you so human, my dear; so human, and--and--womanly. You jump to conclusions without hearing reasons. Now I will give you the reasons. But I do wish you would sit down.
human
I will sit here, said Charlotte, and she drew a chair near the table. The room abounded in easy-chairs of all sizes and descriptions, but she chose one hard and made of cane, and she sat upright upon it, her hands folded on her lap.
gpt
Now, Uncle Jasper, she said,
human
I am ready to hear your reasons.