human
Wake up, you two!
gpt
Time to take off your pink bow, dear. It's daylight and it looks worse than goldenrod with red ribbon.
human
Ouch! You needn't have given that last yank. I'm awake. Hannah!
gpt
Don't bother me, she said.
human
I didn't get to sleep last night until this morning.
gpt
Why aren't you in your own room and bed?
human
I'll wager you two slept together, yourselves, said Catherine.
gpt
O, Hannah, do wake up! It's raining!
human
Yes, that's what we came to tell you, said Alice.
gpt
We've just been watching it wash away our beautiful moonlight picnic.
human
Isn't it beastly?
gpt
I should call it foul,
human
Why not fish-ous?
gpt
Ow! Look out for my glasses!
human
Well, don't make such flat puns then. I believe you sleep with your glasses on. How funny they must look staring away in the dark. There goes the rising-bell. I'll beat every one of you to breakfast.
gpt
There's a damper on this one, sighed Catherine.
human
Alice has not been up the river yet, and the other girls haven't been to one real Boat Club picnic. Mother! and an inspired look came into Catherine's eyes,
gpt
I don't see any objection, she said presently.
human
I suppose that would be more fun than having them all come here?
gpt
O, heaps more, cried Hannah.
human
It would be the jolliest kind of a lark.
gpt
Would the Board be willing?
human
I'm sure of that, said Catherine.
gpt
Algernon will be the hardest to persuade, for he feels as though the library were almost holy ground, but I'll interview him at once.