human
Ah, ah! We know! You've gone and bought one of them lamps for your place. We know all about it!
gpt
But how came you to know about it already?
human
Your mother mentioned it to my mother when she went through our place. She said that your father had bought from the storeman one of that sort of lamps that burn so brightly that one can find a needle on the floor--so at least said the justice's maid.
gpt
It is just like the lamp in the parsonage drawing-room, your father told us just now. I heard him say so with my own ears,
human
Then you really have got a lamp like that, eh?
gpt
Yes, we have; but it is nothing to look at in the daytime, but in the evening we'll all go there together.