human
Why--eh? Oh, Mrs. Dobbs's allowance! Oh yes. Well, my dear, you have pretty well answered your own question. If you had known, you would not have consented to come to town, and take your proper place in society. Your aunt considered it most important that you should do so. And I'm sure, May, you must allow that she has done her very best for you in every way.
gpt
thought May;
human
Then she said aloud,
gpt
Aunt Pauline has been very kind to me. But how could there be any 'proper place' for me in society, unless I could honestly afford to take it? To get it by imposing privations on my grandmother, who is not bound, except by her own abundant goodness, to do anything for me at all--this surely could not be right or just, could it?
human
And, oh, Uncle Frederick, proceeded May;
gpt
Impostor, my dear? No, no; that's nonsense, you know.