human
I'm not so very clever about things, she said,
gpt
Yes,
human
Well. You might have meant several things. You might just have meant that we needed a change. We had been sitting about and wishing it was cooler and talking nonsense and gossip--almost!--and we hadn't been doing anything useful. Perhaps you wanted us to find out that we'd be happier if we did something for some one else, even if it looked disagreeable at first. I've always had that preached to me!
gpt
I didn't preach!
human
No, you prescribed. That's your way of preaching, though. You set us to preaching to ourselves, and it's much more objectionable. I can shut my ears when other people preach to me, but I can't get away from myself! But I was wondering if, perhaps, besides all that, you didn't want us to see how cheerful and happy some people manage to be without much to make them so. Even that little girl with the spine plays she is an enchanted princess, Catherine says, and has lovely times, winding balls of yarn and cutting paper chains. She has to get a certain number of them done before the enchantment will be broken. I know who suggested that idea to her, said Hannah, looking searchingly into the doctor's face.
gpt
I've found out a lot of things this afternoon about you, professionally. Perhaps _that_ was what you were after! Just advertising!
human
Go on, Hannah, said Dr. Helen, seeing Hannah hesitate a little.
gpt
Dr. Harlow will be interested in your analysis of my prescription.
human
I wasn't going to analyse it any more, but I was just thinking that whichever you meant, they were really all of them the same thing Miss Lyndesay meant when she talked to us about being _laetus_, I mean, _laetae sorte mea_, I mean _nostra_!
gpt
When you finish school, Hannah, suggested Dr. Harlow,