human
Euphy! I cried in despair.
gpt
Will you not confide in me what has come over you? What has effected this amazing transformation? You owe me some explanation! I--I don't know what to think!
human
I suppose it all does seem a bit queer to you, she conceded, throwing herself into one of the hideous new chairs with a boyish abandon.
gpt
I've got used to myself, you see, and I forget. I've been so frightfully busy all through the war too. I suppose the war and being in the motor corps rather waked me up a bit. The war and Uncle Joshua's money.
human
Uncle Joshua! I exclaimed.
gpt
I didn't know we had an Uncle Joshua!
human
Well, we had, and he left me all his fortune unconditionally, about two weeks after you left home, said Euphemia.
gpt
I never wrote you, because--well, your showing all that grit, going off your own bat and all, made me frightfully jealous. Made me feel so useless. And I determined I'd make something out of myself before I got too old. And, old dear, with the masseuse I've got and the good time I'm having, I expect to live to be a hundred. You see I went to a course of lectures the first month you were away. On subconscious inhibitions and suppressed desires, they were. I bought the ticket with the first of Uncle Joshua's money. I found out at these lectures that all I had to do to be a success was to be myself. I at once started in to be myself--and--here I am!
human
And I slaved like a--a prisoner! I sniffed,
gpt
There is nothing in the least outrageous about my life! she snapped with some of her old-time asperity.
human
It's far less outrageous than my old, selfish, self-centered life was. Anybody but an old-fashioned woman like yourself would see that. And as for your money, every cent of it has been spent upon the maintenance of a motor-ambulance corps--in France, during the war, and here in Boston in reconstruction since!
gpt
It must be admitted that I find the news very gratifying, I said after a short silence.
human
I am sorry I was so short. But I am upset--fearfully upset. I suppose--indeed I believe that you are living as you think right. From my standpoint I think it most unwomanly. However, I want to be friends. I wish to make this visit a success. I have some other shoes, Euphemia, really I have--quite high-heeled ones. And I only keep to my curls because Mr. Pegg, my husband, admires them!
gpt
Yes, my dear! I said.
human
Your masculine ways may be all very well for you. But they will never catch you a husband. For my part, nothing could appear sweeter than to go gradually down life's sunset path hand-in-hand with a beloved partner as I am doing--and the fact that the five-carat stone on the left one is a real diamond does not make me any the less happy!