human
It is no puzzle at all, she declared.
gpt
I can smell horse, horse, and again horse. Mr. Merrihew--
human
Yes, I know all about it. I should have fetched along a sachet-powder. I never remember anything but one thing, Kitty, and that's you. He came round and sat down beside her.
gpt
There's no doubt that I reek of the animal. But the real question is, bluntly,
human
Ten days, Kitty murmured. She was more than pretty to-day, and there was malice aforethought in all the little ribbons and trinkets and furbelows. She had dressed expressly for this moment, but Merrihew was not going to be told so.
gpt
Ten days,
human
And dangling, dangling. I've been hanging in mid-air for nearly a year now. When are you going to put me out of my misery?
gpt
But am I to be blamed if, after having refused twice to marry you, you still persist?
human
All you have to do, sadly,
gpt
That's just it, cried Kitty wrathfully.
human
If I tell you to go it will be for good; and I don't want you to go that way. I like you; you are cheerful and amusing, and I find pleasure in your company. But every day in the year, breakfast and dinner!
gpt
But you haven't refused me this time.
human
Because I wish to make it as easy as possible for you. Which of the two meanings she offered him was lost upon Merrihew; he saw but one, nor the covert glance, roguish and mischievous withal.
gpt
Come, let us be sensible for ten minutes.
human
Don't you love it in Florence?
gpt
Oh, yes, scraping the gravel with his crop.
human
Hillard says I'm finishing my bally education at a canter. I can tell a saint from a gentleman in a night-gown, a halo from a barrel-hoop, and I can drink Chianti without making a face.