human
His mother writes--
gpt
Yes?
human
She tells me--Well, her father died last month, it seems, and she is expecting something out of his estate....
gpt
Estate? Is there one?
human
Who can say? A man in that business! There might be something; there might be nothing or less. And it might take a year or more to get it.
gpt
And if there is anything?
human
She says she will look after Albert's first year or two. I was about to refuse, but I expect I shall have to listen now.
gpt
But there won't be. That old woman with her water-waves and her wrinkles is still hanging on; even if there should be anything, she would be the one to get most of it. I know her--she would snatch it all!
human
Listen, Raymond, I said;
gpt
I don't want you to. There must be some way to manage.
human
I doubt if she can do anything, herself. Whatever she did would come through him in the end. You say he likes Albert? He was silent again.
gpt
I don't want to meet either of them--but I would about as soon meet him as her.