human
I give up! I give up! he exclaimed.
gpt
I said I'd disown him if he refused to marry Dorothy Johnson, my partner's daughter. But 'tain't really Lawford's fault, I s'pose, if Dot won't marry him. It seems she had other ideas along that line, too, and I never knew it till we got this invitation to her wedding.
human
Of course, I knew you would see it in the right light in time. But it really has been the making of Lawford,
gpt
You think so, do you? returned the Taffy King.
human
I wonder what good it would have done him if you hadn't been the prize he wanted? I'm not sure I shouldn't pay you out, Louise Grayling, by making the two of you live for a year on his eighteen dollars a week.
gpt
Are you sure that would be such a great punishment?