human
I suppose you are out of pin-money? he interpreted.
gpt
Stupid of me not to have realized it, Dollykin, though I sent you rather a good deal to the convent, you remember? He brought his hand out, filled with silver.
human
There! Spend it 'not wisely but too well'--not that one need give any girl advice on that subject! Dear, dear, how women can make the money fly!
gpt
I should like a chance, said Joan soberly,
human
The money Mother left, with you as guardian--that I was to have whenever I asked--
gpt
Not that she ever expected such a contingency to arrive! commented the Major with a sudden accession of stiffness.
human
You are not of age yet, my child.
gpt
Was there any provision in her will about my being of age?
human
No, he admitted.
gpt
Owing to what was of course purely a technical error, I think there was not. My poor Mary was quite unaccustomed to the terminology of wills, naturally, and as she and a servant drew it up between them, you may imagine--