human
No, papa didn't come, she stammered,
gpt
You did quite right, you precious child, said Mrs. Anderson, suddenly, in a voice of the tenderest authority. She held out her arms and Charlotte fled to them. Mrs. Anderson looked over the girl's head at her son with the oddest and most inexplicable reproach.
human
You go up and see if the heat is turned on in that little room out of mine, she commanded,
gpt
Then all in the same breath she was comforting Charlotte.
human
Your father is all right, dear child. Don't you worry one mite--not one mite. I remember once, when I was a girl, my father didn't come home, and mother and I were almost crazy, and he came in laughing the next morning. He had lost his last train because there was a block on account of the ice. The river was frozen over. There is nothing for you to worry about. Now come right up-stairs and go to bed. There is a little room out of mine, as warm as toast, and you won't be a bit afraid. There you were all alone in that great house, you poor, blessed child.
gpt
I should have been so afraid, I should have lost my senses, all alone in a house at your age, said Mrs. Anderson, all the time gently impelling the girl along with her.
human
Of course there is nothing to be afraid of, but one imagines things; and you came here all alone at this time of the night!
gpt
Yes,
human
All that way alone this time of night, you poor, precious child!