human
Nonsense--I don't wish any such thing. Doing it makes me not a whit less charming and lovely. She often applied these adjectives to herself, with the most perfect conviction that she was uttering a fiction patent to every body. I must be very juvenile also, for I'm certain the fellow-passenger at the station to-day took me for Ascott's sweetheart. When we were saying good by an old gentleman who sat next him was particularly sympathetic, and you should have seen how indignantly Ascott replied,
gpt
It's only my aunt!
human
Well, my pet, never mind. I hope you will have a real sweetheart some day.
gpt
I'm in no hurry, thank you, Johanna.