human
O, pshaw! It's only a cow, more afraid than we were. She made all that noise just tearing up the bank.
gpt
I thought it was an earthshake, sighed Frieda, leaning back and resting.
human
That was one hundred strokes without missing. I didn't know the bank was so near.
gpt
Neither did I. That's the trouble with us, Frieda. We get so interested in rowing that we forget to steer.
human
We steered into a steer that time.
gpt
O, Frieda! You ought not to be allowed to make jokes in English, you make such bad ones.
human
Ten days ago I thought I should never make a joke in any language, or laugh at one again. I was very sorrowful when I came here, Polly.
gpt
I didn't dream it, answered Polly.
human
You looked very sweet when I first saw you, and I thought you kept still because you didn't care to talk! But we have had a lot of fun these days, haven't we? I feel as though I had known you a long time. Wish you were going to Wellesley.
gpt
So do I. It would be delightful, with you there and Karl and Hannah so near. But my parents decided for me. Karl will go to see you, though.
human
That's nice. Really, Frieda, you will find it's lots easier at a small college than a large one at first. And you can come on East afterward. Dexter is fine, and you'll have such a start, going in as Catherine's friend.
gpt
If every one there is as beautiful and--_apart_ as Catherine is, I shan't get on very well. Catherine is like a saint. She could never understand wickedness as you and Hannah do.
human
Thanks very much! Polly answered dryly.
gpt
But you take my word for it, Catherine isn't just a saint. There is fun in her, too, though not on the surface. You may always feel as though she were a beautiful picture or poem but you won't like her the less for that. She's not stand-offish. She's just different. My dear, I felt a drop.
human
So did I. And there's another.