human
You wrote me that you wanted to consult me. Is there anything I can do for you?
gpt
It was a personal matter,
human
So you wrote. Mr. Mavick is away, and if it is in regard to anything in your office, any promotion, you know, I don't understand anything about business.
gpt
No, it is not about the office. I should not think of troubling my friends in that way. It is just that--
human
Oh, I see, Mrs. Mavick interrupted, with good-humor,
gpt
and she leaned back in her chair, with the air of weighing the chances in her mind,
human
No, it is not that, said Philip, leaning forward and looking her full in the face with all the courage he could summon,
gpt
What!
human
I was afraid you would think me very presumptuous.
gpt
Presumptuous! Why, she is a child. Do you know what you are talking about?
human
My mother married at eighteen,
gpt
That is an interesting piece of information, but I don't see its bearing. Will you tell me, Mr. Burnett, what nonsense you have got into your head?
human
I want, and Philip spoke very gently--
gpt
I want, Mrs. Mavick, permission to see your daughter.
human
Ah! I thought in Rivervale, Mr. Burnett, that you were a gentleman. You presume upon my invitation to this house, in an underhand way, to--What right have you?