human
Come whenever you like. I'm alone most of the time and you can be free with me, meaningly.
gpt
My tongue isn't hung in the middle to wag at both ends.
human
You can't have a kid running in and out all the time,
gpt
There isn't much about this house that you let me have as I want it. You took me away from my old friends and brought me up here where it's so stylish I don't know a soul. I wonder I haven't lost my voice, I've so little chance to use it. We've been here for seven months now and though there's dozens and dozens of people pass my door every night and morning, there's not one of them ever stops. The janitor and his wife are the only ones I can talk to and I have to find fault to get them up here. You and Louise are out all day. You don't stay here.
human
You don't have to stay here, either, yawned Miss Lottie. She had heard all that before, very, very often.
gpt
We've told you a million times to go out.
human
Where'll I go? asked her mother sharply.
gpt
Where'll I go? I can't run about the streets and the stores six days in the week. A woman's got to be home some time and if I find that child amuses me I'm going to have her here when I want her. You needn't say another word, Lottie Schuneman. So long as I pay the bills I'll have something to say about my own house.
human
I was only telling you the kid might be a nuisance,
gpt
And I was telling you I'd do as you do, choose my own friends. That child's the only soul that has ever looked at me in a friendly way since I came to this house and I'm going to see her when I want to.
human
Old Lady Schuneman's been crosser than two sticks ever since she came here. Maybe it is because she's lonesome, I dunno. Seems if a canary won't do much for her but, for the land's sakes, Mary Rose, don't put one in every flat.
gpt
Wouldn't that be grand! Mary Rose stopped paring potatoes for supper to look at her aunt with admiration.
human
It would be like living inside an organ, wouldn't it. I think it would be perfectly lovely.
gpt
I can't bear to be alone, she had explained to Aunt Kate.
human
If I don't have a friend with me I feel as if I was shut up in a dark closet.