human
We always do this, whispered Peggy to Keineth as they sat close together,
gpt
We'll do it,
human
I suppose we'll go on hanging up our stockings after we're doddering old grandparents,
gpt
Mother and Daddy just spend all their time making everything jolly for us children, Peggy said afterwards. The children were sitting around the table, their school-books before them.
human
I just wish we could do something that'd be an awful nice surprise for them.
gpt
Let's do something on Christmas that they won't know about,
human
What?
gpt
Janet Clark's cousins have charades Christmas night.
human
Oh, charades are stupid!
gpt
I know! Ken, let's write a play!
human
A play!
gpt
Yes. I've got it all in my head, now. Barb will help us when she comes home. You know Mother is going to invite Aunt Cora and Uncle Tom Jenkins and the Pennys over for dinner Christmas night; we'll surprise them with the play. Marian and Ted and the Penny girls can be in it! Oh, I've always wanted to act! Won't it be _fun!
human
The Midsummer Night's Dream,