human
I should like to live there,
gpt
You would find it rather a hardship, I am afraid, she returned, watching him closely,
human
Easy enough to lay pipes from the hotel, back there. He nodded in the direction of the larger house, the one of the twenty-five Guernseys and the model barn.
gpt
They have a large supply and a power pump. Ask me something harder.
human
The heating, she ventured.
gpt
Fires--open fires--are very nice and necessary. But they wouldn't be sufficient.
human
It is not impossible to put in a heating-system. One might even run steam pipes along with the water pipes and heat from their boilers. I press the button, they do the rest.
gpt
Well, I can't seem to think of any other objection. And there is a very good view.
human
A very good view, he repeated. He was silent for a while.
gpt
I have done very well in the past five or six years, he said then,
human
He smiled at the words.
gpt
That's it. We'll call it Sanderson's Retreat.
human
I am very glad, Fox, she murmured.
gpt
That makes me very happy.
human
Sanderson's Retreat? he asked, turning to her.
gpt
But I haven't got it. Just as I thought I had found it I found that I couldn't get it.
human
Perhaps that old skinflint who lives there doesn't own it,
gpt
Of course I thought of that, he answered, with some impatience.
human
But how am I to find out about it without exciting the cupidity of the native farmers? Once aroused, it is a terrible thing. I might advertise: 'Wanted, a place of not less than fifty acres, with large house commanding a good view over a valley, a herd of about twenty-five Guernseys, a barn with all the modern improvements, and a power pump. Price no object.' Rather narrows it down a trifle.
gpt
I won't keep you in suspense, she said.
human
Uncle John owned it when he brought me out here. He told me so. And he owned this house, too.
gpt
Uncle John! cried Fox.
human
He knew a thing or two, didn't he? I wish I had found it while he was living. Now, I suppose I shall have to buy it of Miss Patty; that is, if I can. Who is the executor of the will? Do you know?
gpt
I haven't heard anything about the will, yet. I think it's likely to be Dick Torrington. Uncle John seemed to like Dick very much and he thought very well of him.
human
I'll see Dick Torrington to-day. We may as well go back. He turned the horse about; then stopped again, looking back at the cream-colored house. He looked for a long time.
gpt
It's very pleasant, he said, at last, sighing.
human
Those trees, now--those in the grove--do they strike you as being suitable for a gynesaurus to climb? Do they?