human
Well done!
gpt
Oh, may I speak to you?
human
Yes, dear; what is it? Come to my room for a minute, if you wish, Betty.
gpt
It isn't important enough for that. Dear Mrs. Haddo, it's just that I am mad for a bit of frolic.
human
Frolic, my child! You seem to have plenty.
gpt
Not enough--not enough--not nearly enough for a wild girl of Aberdeenshire, a girl who has lived on the moors and loved them.
human
What do you want, dear child?
gpt
I want most awfully, with your permission, to go with my two sisters Sylvia and Hester to have tea with the Mileses. I want to pet those dogs again, and I want to go particularly badly between now and next Thursday.
human
And why especially between now and next Thursday?
gpt
Ah, I can't quite give you the reason. There is a reason. Please--please--please say yes!
human
It is certainly against my rules.
gpt
But, dear Mrs. Haddo, it isn't against your rules if you give leave,
human
You are very clever at arguing, Betty. I certainly have liberty to break rules in individual cases. Well, dear child, it shall be so. I will send a line to Mrs. Miles to ask her to expect you and your sisters to-morrow. A servant shall accompany you, and will call again later on. You can only stay about one hour at the farm. To-morrow is a half-holiday, so it will be all right.
gpt
Oh, how kind of you!
human
Betty, she said,
gpt
Gladly! replied Betty. And now for one minute her brilliant eyes were raised and fixed on those of Mrs. Haddo.
human
Gladly, she repeated--and she shivered slightly--
gpt
It's all right, girls!
human
What is all right, Betty and Bess?
gpt
Oh, kiss me, girls, said Betty,
human
The Mileses'!
gpt
Yes, you silly children; those dear farmer-folk who keep the dogs.
human
Dan and Beersheba?
gpt
Yes, Dan and Beersheba; and we're going to have a real jolly time, and we're going to forget dull care. It'll be quite the most delightful sport we've had since we came to Haddo Court. What I should love most would be to vault over the fence and go all by our lonesome selves. But we must have a maid--a horrid, stupid maid; only, of course, she'll walk behind, and she'll leave us alone when we get to the farm. She'll fetch us again by-and-by--that'll be another nuisance. Still, somehow, I don't know what there is about school, but I'm not game enough to go without leave.
human
You are changed a good bit, said Hetty.
gpt
I think myself it's since you were made a Speciality.
human
Perhaps so,