human
Dear! dear! she said;
gpt
I am glad I came. You look as if you wanted cheering up. Mrs. Holman, I've splendid news for you.
human
What is that, my dear little lady? That you have got money to buy another toy? But Mr. Holman said only as late as last night that he wouldn't send you another worn-out toy not for nobody. 'Tain't fair, my love. It seems like playing on your generosity, my dear.
gpt
But I like them, said the child;
human
I do really, truly. I paint them up with the paints in my paint-box and make them look as good as new. They are much more interesting than perfect toys, they are truly.
gpt
Well, dear, your mother would not like it if she know we treated you in what my husband says is a shabby way.
human
Don't think any more about that now, Mrs. Holman. You both treat me as I love to be treated--as though I were your little friend.
gpt
Which you are, darling--which you are.
human
Well, Mrs. Holman, I must hurry; I must tell you my good news. Do you remember telling me last week that you had a hundred pounds put away in the Savings Bank, and that you didn't know what to do with it. You said, 'Money ought to make money,' and you didn't know how your hundred pounds would make money. It was such a funny speech, and you tried to 'splain it to me, and I tried to understand.
gpt
It was silly of my husband and me to talk of it before you, Missy. It is true we have got a hundred pounds. It is a nest-egg against a rainy day.
human
Now again you are talking funnily; a nest-egg against a rainy day?
gpt
Against a time of trouble when we may want to spend the money.
human
Oh, I understand that,
gpt
And I had it well invested, but the money was paid back, and there was nothing for it but to pop it into the Post Office Savings Bank.
human
It's there still, is it?
gpt
Yes, dear.
human
Well, now, what do you say to buying bits of gold with it?
gpt
Bits of gold with our hundred pounds?
human
Yes, that is exactly what I mean; bits of gold. You will be able to if you keep it long enough. If you promise to keep that money safe you may be able to buy great lumps of gold out of my father's gold mine. My father has gone to Australia to----Oh, I must not tell you, for it really is an awful, awful secret; but, anyhow, when he comes back you'll be able to make a lot of money out of your money, to buy heaps of bits of gold. Will you promise to keep that hundred pounds till father comes home? That's what I came about, to ask you to promise, and Watson came with me because Miss Winstead wouldn't. Will you promise, dear Mrs. Holman?
gpt
Bless you, darling, said Mrs. Holman,
human
It's awfully exciting, isn't it? We shall all be so rich. Mother said so, and mother ought to know. You'll be rich, and I'll be rich, and dear, dear nursie will be rich, and even Watson. Watson has got such good impulses. He'll be rich, too, and he shall marry the girl he is fond of; and there is a friend of mine, he wants to marry another girl, and they shall be rich and they shall marry. Oh, nobody need be sorrowful any more. Everybody will be quite happy when father comes back. You'll be able to have your shop in Palace Road, and oh, be sure you keep that hundred pounds till then.
gpt
Come, Watson, she said,