human
Going to the Fair?
gpt
Yes, I think so.
human
Wait half an hour or so, and go with us.
gpt
I don’t believe you will take my way, for I am going in the Wheel.
human
With Jack?
gpt
No, alone.
human
Mr. Page wants to go again. Let me ask him. He is upstairs writing a letter.
gpt
Don’t speak to him for anything.
human
But I don’t want you to go to the Midway alone, Milly. Hilda and both Mr. Pages and I are going to the Anthropological Building together. Do put off the Wheel, and come with us.
gpt
No, I thank you. Our friend Gorham will be in his element, getting your mental and physical strength tested up there in the gallery. I wouldn’t be in that revel for anything,
human
Is Mildred going to the Fair?
gpt
Yes. I do wish for once, Jack, you had asked to go with her, for she is bound for the Ferris Wheel.
human
I did.
gpt
And she refused? exclaimed Clover in surprise and exasperation.
human
Was there ever such an incomprehensible
gpt
But she gave me this.
human
Well, then, we are getting on, she said, much pleased.
gpt
Go on being an icicle, Jack. It is the only way. Don’t for the world urge her to let you accompany her, even though I don’t like her to go alone. In the first place she would only retreat as you advanced, and in the second it would probably be salutary for her to stick among the clouds of heaven for a few hours, so I won’t worry about the Wheel.
human
I think I will go on down, he said.
gpt
There is a bare possibility, you know, that I may meet Mildred. If she should be later than you expect in coming home, you would better think of me as being the trap than of the Wheel.
human
You won’t meet, sighed Clover.
gpt
What a foolish girl she is!