human
Do you all the good in the world, old sport! preached Peter, an authority of eleven, with three years of preparatory-school experience behind him.
gpt
I felt a bit queer myself, you know, when I first went to The Grange, but one soon gets over that. You'll shake down.
human
I don't want to shake down, bleated Dona.
gpt
It's a shame I should have to go at all! You can't any of you understand how I feel. You're all beasts!
human
They'll allow you a bucket to weep into for the first day or two, poor old Bunting! said Larry consolingly.
gpt
It won't be so much kindness on their part as a desire to save the carpets--salt water takes the colour out of things so. But I fancy they'll limit you to a week's wailing, and if you don't turn off the tap after that, they'll send for a doctor, who'll prescribe Turkey rhubarb and senna mixed with quinine. It's a stock school prescription for shirking; harmless, you know, but particularly nasty; you'd have the taste in your mouth for days. Oh, cheer up, for goodness' sake! Look here: if I'm really sent to the camp at Denley, I'll come and look you up, and take you out to tea somewhere. How would that suit your ladyship?
human
Would you really? Will you promise?
gpt
Honest Injun, I will!
human
Then I don't mind quite so much as I did, though I still hate the thought of school,
gpt
. Nora, the eldest, had been married a year ago, Bevis was in the Navy, Leonard was serving