human
So you have been at the White Sulphur? said Mrs. Glow.
gpt
How did you like it?
human
Immensely. It's the only place left where there is a congregate social life.
gpt
You mean provincial life. Everybody knows everybody else.
human
Well, King retorted, with some spirit,
gpt
Oh, I see; hospitable, frank, cordial-all that. Stanhope, do you know, I think you are a little demoralized this summer. Did you fall in love with a Southern belle? Who was there?
human
Well, all the South, pretty much. I didn't fall in love with all the belles; we were there only two weeks. Oh! there was a Mrs. Farquhar there.
gpt
Georgiana Randolph! Georgie! How did she look? We were at Madame Sequin's together, and a couple of seasons in Paris. Georgie! She was the handsomest, the wittiest, the most fascinating woman I ever saw. I hope she didn't give you a turn?
human
Oh, no. But we were very good friends. She is a very handsome woman --perhaps you would expect me to say handsome still; but that seems a sort of treason to her mature beauty.
gpt
And who else?
human
Oh, the Storbes from New Orleans, the Slifers from Mobile--no end of people--some from Philadelphia--and Ohio.
gpt
Ohio? Those Bensons!
human
Yes, those Bensons, Penelope. Why not?
gpt
Oh, nothing. It's a free country. I hope, Stanhope, you didn't encourage her. You might make her very unhappy.
human
I trust not, said King stoutly.
gpt
We are engaged.
human
Engaged!
gpt
Yes, and you are just in time to congratulate us. There they are!