human
Isn't there a good deal of it to keep clean, dear?
gpt
Ah, but in the South one cannot be cramped for room, replied the Major largely.
human
There is hospitality to be considered! You must remember that our daughter's début into society will take place from this house, my love. Who knows?--perhaps her wedding! He pinched Joan's cheek playfully.
gpt
How do you like it, Dollykins?
human
Not at all, she replied, too discouraged to be euphonious just then.
gpt
It's hideous, and there's a grocer-shop opposite, and Mother'll never sleep with these horrid cars jangling by. Why can't we have a house in one of those pretty green courts, Daddy?
human
What! Not a banal, stupid, uninteresting new bungalow such as one might have in Pittsburgh, or Oshkosh, or Kalamazoo, Michigan! Where's your sense of local color, child? The atmosphere wouldn't be right at all!