human
How're you this evening, Mrs. Smith? said she, in answer to the bland welcome she received;
gpt
I was just telling your black girl that if you ever should happen to have a party again, she should open the rooms and have the air changed better the next day; and as you are not used to such things yourself, I thought I might as well let you know it, too. I raised the windows myself. Now, she added,
human
Certainly, certainly, Miss Debby,
gpt
Stop! said Miss Debby,
human
I want to take a look at your wall paper--I never noticed it before. I can't say I like your taste; though, no doubt, you took it for the sake of economy--ugly papers sometimes go very cheap.
gpt
You are quite mistaken, I assure you, Miss Debby,
human
Well, it's of no consequence, interrupted Miss Debby,
gpt
How disappointed I was at your not coming last night, my dear Miss Debby--one of the friends I most wished to see.
human
I have been rather sorry myself that I did not come, since I heard that the party turned out better than could have been expected. I supposed that there would have been a great many here that I did not know, and that my own set, mostly, would have stayed away, like myself, not caring much to meet them.
gpt
What an idea, Miss Debby! there was scarcely one in the room that you did not know. My company was very select.
human
So I was told to-day. Mrs. William Van Pelt said that you had invited every body that would not thank you, and, as she had been told, had left out those that had the best right to expect invitations. I should like to have had a share of the supper, continued Miss Debby.
gpt
I heard that you had worried yourself nearly to death preparing it, and that it was really good, considering that you were not used to such things. Young John Pendleton said that it made him some little amends for being forced to go to a place where he made a mistake every time he addressed his entertainers and called them Joneses.