human
You make this shanty feel like home--though it is a very long while since I had one,
gpt
We have been making improvements since you left, she said.
human
It really doesn't need very much to make a place look comfortable.
gpt
Well, he said,
human
I suppose it doesn't. I don't know how you manage it, Hetty, but everything seems just as one would like it when you arrange it. Still, that's not quite what I mean either. I'm really not sure I know what I do mean--you see, I'm sleepy.
gpt
You are worn out, and needn't worry about it until you have had supper, she said.
human
If I had known you would come back like this I would never have let you go.
gpt
Still, you wanted the flour.
human
I didn't mean you to wear yourself out to save those lazy miners from baking their own bread.
gpt
I shall be all right to-morrow, and I'm going to talk, he said,
human
That wasn't why you sent me. One doesn't start a bakery out of philanthropy.
gpt
Well, said Hetty,
human
For Tom and me! said Ingleby reproachfully.
gpt
I felt horribly mean about it all the way to the settlement.
human
Is it very unpleasant then to let me do anything for you?
gpt
No, said Ingleby.
human
That is, of course, it's generally very nice. Still, in this case----
gpt
Oh, I know! Still, you seemed quite angry once because I didn't care to let you lend Tom the money to bring us out.
human
That, of course, was very different.
gpt
Yes, she said.
human
When one is a girl it usually is.
gpt
That stone hearth wasn't there when I left, he said.
human
Who made it, Hetty?
gpt
Tomlinson. Tom went round to tell the boys about the bakery, and Tomlinson came over to show him how to build the oven.
human
And he made this chair? Now I think of it we hadn't one before, and Tom certainly didn't make it. It's too comfortable.
gpt
Yes,
human
And he built the new shed?
gpt
He certainly did!
human
It seems to me, he said severely,
gpt
Could you build a chimney like that one?
human
No, said Ingleby decisively.
gpt
If I must be honest, I don't think I could. Still, there wasn't the least occasion to ask Tomlinson. He must have been here more than once?
human
I believe he was here three or four times.
gpt
Why did he come so often?
human
He said it was to see how Tom was getting on with the oven.
gpt
Of course! said Ingleby.
human
Well, I suppose one excuse was as good as another. One would, however, fancy that Tomlinson had quite enough to do looking after his mine.