human
You're not vivid enough, that's the trouble with you! You've got to be vivider! she thought.
gpt
You ought to have taken that cocktail! She drank wine now, a whole glass of it, and tried to be very boisterous with the man on her right, who was smiling back as though he could barely hear her voice.
human
He has had too much! she told herself.
gpt
Oh, how I loathe you--loathe you all!
human
You may even grow to like all this!
gpt
This is how he and Amy came home. Never mind, I'm not half so weak as I thought. I can play this game--
human
The way the men looked at you, held you! This is no life for you, Ethel Lanier! The dancing was all she cared about. She wanted that, but with other men whom she would like to be friends with--
gpt
Yes, she must get away from these creatures, and get Joe away, too; but to do it she must show him first that she was really willing to do her best to like them all. The next thing was to ask them here.
human
It's the only way to break their hold. Show him you're no jealous cat. And how do I know that among them all, as I go about, I won't find a few that aren't so tough? And through them I'll find others.
gpt
Fanny knows as well as I do myself that I can't wear pearls! she thought angrily. She exchanged them for opal pendants. And then, in order to put a stop to Fanny's detestable attempts
human
Ethel did start in and shop. And as soon as she got well into it, what a fever it became! Sternly eyeing herself in the mirrors of shops, she studied and made mistakes by the score, and corrected and went on and on.
gpt
I'll look right if kills me!