human
It was--blue or green or something, only _not_ wine-color,
gpt
Was any one else there?
human
No, it was just for the professor.
gpt
She might have had the goodness to remember there were more in the family. Mrs. Grandon and myself,
human
What was the opera? I think you _are_ getting very----
gpt
he interrupts, quickly.
human
An acquaintance of madame's sang as _Plunkett_, and did extremely well; a young Italian who only a year or two ago lost his fortune.
gpt
Brignoli used to be divine as _Lionel_, says Marcia.
human
I don't believe I should like another person in that _rôle_. Of course madame is making a great sensation in New York. What a wonderfully handsome woman she is, and--do you remember, Gertrude, whether any one ever made any great fuss about her in her youth?
gpt
She is the handsomest woman I ever saw, begins Eugene, and his glance falls upon Violet.
human
Of course she was handsome always, and you need not hint enviously of a lost youth, Marcia. She looks younger than any of you girls to-day. There wasn't one at Newport who could hold a candle to her. The men were mowed down 'n swaths. Not one could stand before her.
gpt
Then _I_ say she is a coquette, is Marcia's decisive reply.
human
I dare say there will be no end of dinners and Germans and lovers. It's fearfully mean in Laura not to take a house for the winter and invite a body down. It is horrid dull here! Floyd, do _you_ mean to stay up all winter?
gpt
Why not? I have not spent a winter here since I was a boy, in the old farm-house with Aunt Marcia.
human
What an awful place it was! Marcia is quite forgetting her _rôle_ of severe high art.
gpt
I believe she always chose the coldest days in winter and the warmest days in summer to invite us. I don't see how you endured it!
human
I not only endured it, says Floyd, meditatively,
gpt
Well, one _might_ like it with a fortune in the background,