human
Bless you, my dear, your name has been a familiar one in this household for more than a year. Teddy was so madly in love with you once that he could talk of nothing else but Kathleen Carew whenever he came. Even the children knew all about it!
gpt
But he got over it directly. Helen Fox told me he proposed to her the week afterward.
human
Teddy Darrell is the worst flirt in Boston! Actually, Miss Carew, I've known that boy to be engaged to three girls at the same time!
gpt
I suppose he can never be really in earnest,
human
I have never known him to be in earnest but once, and I have been his confidante, I believe, in all of his love affairs. He has had many fancies, but he never really loved any one but _you_, my dear girl.
gpt
Well, Teddy is a good catch, if I do say it myself, for he is a real good boy, and very rich. His wife, if he ever gets one, will have a happy life; and I hope he will soon marry, for that would cure him of his little fads.
human
Fads?
gpt
Yes, replied her new friend;
human
An actor?
gpt
He has been stage-struck ever since he saw Ralph Chainey act last winter, continued the communicative hostess.
human
He tells me now that he is studying to go upon the stage, but I'm sure he will fail. He will certainly have stage-fright.
gpt
I hope not,
human
Good-night, my dear,