human
I do not feel able to pay more than twenty dollars,
gpt
That is too little. I'll split the difference and say twenty-two and a half. I suppose you have no other children?
human
I have one other--a boy of eight.
gpt
Then I don't think I should be willing to let you the rooms, said the landlady, her manner changing.
human
I don't like to take young children.
gpt
He is a very quiet boy.
human
No boys of eight are quiet, said the landlady decidedly.
gpt
They are all noisy and troublesome.
human
Jimmy is never noisy or troublesome,
gpt
Of course you think so, as you are his mother, rejoined the landlady.
human
You may be mistaken, you know.
gpt
Perhaps you object to me also, said Paul.
human
I am more noisy than my little brother.
gpt
I look upon you as a young man,
human
I think we shall have to try somewhere else, mother, he said.
gpt
Perhaps we shall find some house where they don't object to noisy boys.