human
I haven't very many virtues, Deborah Watts was saying, trying to assume a modest attitude, and failing;
gpt
You don't look as if you'd ever been sick in your life,
human
I haven't, Wee admitted,
gpt
Were you ever in an accident?
human
No, I can't say that I ever was--but--what I mean is, I am not nervous. I haven't any fear of things happening when I'm riding, or train wrecks or--
gpt
How about a mouse? Sue Hemphill inquired.
human
You said the other night--
gpt
Oh, how absurd, Sue--a mouse! Nobody is afraid of a mouse--really afraid--they're just so horrid, that's all. They're such squirmy things--ugh! No, what I mean is--I guess I'm not very clear, but I hardly know what _fear_ is. I'm never afraid of being out nights--
human
I'm not either, Angela Dare said,
gpt
I think intuition is _my_ long suit, Annabel Jackson said.
human
Sometimes it's perfectly uncanny. I can almost read people's thoughts and know what they are going to say and do.
gpt
How?
human
Oh, I don't know how. No one can account for those things.
gpt
I thought you might help Mary Boyd--she's short on intuition--just at present.
human
What's Mary done now?
gpt
Mary's furious, she said.
human
She's preparing for one of her monthly flights to Chicago. She's packing up.
gpt
What's the matter this time?
human
Same old story. Fraulein! I think it is a shame those children have to have her all the time. She's ruining their dispositions. They all just hate her.
gpt
What did Mary do, Sue?
human
Oh, you'll have to get the particulars from her. It's as good as a vaudeville stunt to hear Mary tell it. They were having an orgy of some kind last night--
gpt
Was Carita in it?
human
I think she was. There was a room full.
gpt
I must go and see, she said.
human
I hope Carita isn't in trouble.
gpt
Come back again, the girls called after her.
human
We've something to discuss later.
gpt
Mary's going home, she said, and a sob shook her.
human
She says she's going to-night. Oh, I'll miss her so, Blue Bonnet.
gpt
Going home?
human
Well, I should say I am, Mary announced, dragging out one garment after another from her closet.
gpt
I wouldn't stay in this school another day for anybody. Fraulein has acted perfectly outrageously. I think she's crazy!
human
What's she done, Mary?
gpt
Done! Well, she's done enough to drive me out of this school--that's all!