human
My dear!
gpt
Was I whistling? said Shirley.
human
I forgot. I beg your pardon, ma'am. I had resolved to take care not to whistle before you.
gpt
But, Miss Keeldar, where did you learn to whistle? You must have got the habit since you came down into Yorkshire. I never knew you guilty of it before.
human
Oh! I learned to whistle a long while ago.
gpt
Who taught you?
human
No one. I took it up by listening, and I had laid it down again. But lately, yesterday evening, as I was coming up our lane, I heard a gentleman whistling that very tune in the field on the other side of the hedge, and that reminded me.
gpt
What gentleman was it?
human
We have only one gentleman in this region, ma'am, and that is Mr. Moore--at least he is the only gentleman who is not gray-haired. My two venerable favourites, Mr. Helstone and Mr. Yorke, it is true, are fine old beaus, infinitely better than any of the stupid young ones.
gpt
You do not like Mr. Helstone, ma'am?
human
My dear, Mr. Helstone's office secures him from criticism.
gpt
You generally contrive to leave the room when he is announced.
human
Do you walk out this morning, my dear?
gpt
Yes, I shall go to the rectory, and seek and find Caroline Helstone, and make her take some exercise. She shall have a breezy walk over Nunnely Common.
human
If you go in that direction, my dear, have the goodness to remind Miss Helstone to wrap up well, as there is a fresh wind, and she appears to me to require care.
gpt
You shall be minutely obeyed, Mrs. Pryor. Meantime, will you not accompany us yourself?
human
No, my love; I should be a restraint upon you. I am stout, and cannot walk so quickly as you would wish to do.