human
Aren't you getting off the track, Vane asked Carroll.
gpt
I don't see the drift of your previous remarks.
human
Well, drawled Carroll,
gpt
Perhaps you have hit it, he said with a laugh.
human
You can reach the Wall from here in a day's ride.
gpt
The Wall?
human
The Roman Wall; Hadrian's Wall. I believe one authority states that they had a garrison of one hundred thousand men to keep it.
gpt
The point Wallace raises is interesting, he remarked.
human
While I don't know how long it takes for a strain to die out, there must have been a large civil population living near the Wall, and we know that the characteristics of the Teutonic peoples who followed the Romans still remain. On the other hand, some of the followers were vexillaries, from the bounds of the Empire; Gauls, for example, or Iberians.
gpt
Gerald should have been sent to Canada instead of to Oxford, the younger girl declared.
human
Then he might have got as rich as Wallace Vane and Mr. Carroll.
gpt
What makes you think they're rich?
human
Oh, we all knew they were rich before they came. They were giving Lucy guineas for the suffragists an hour ago. They must have a good deal of money to waste it like that. Besides, I think Wallace wanted her to take some more; and he seemed quite vexed when he said he'd tried to give money to somebody else in Canada who wouldn't have it. As he said 'she,' it must have been a woman, but I don't think he meant to mention that. It slipped out.
gpt
You had no right to listen,