human
Well, would you like the story of the Princess with the Broken Heart?
gpt
Anything about a Princess!
human
It sounds sad, Alice. If it's sad, don't let's have it,
gpt
Oh, after all the old doctors had tried to mend it, one came, looking much older and much more wrinkled than all the rest----
human
I shall keep my eye on that practitioner, all the same, Stephen interposed.
gpt
I'm beginning to know the ropes!
human
And he mended it with an enormous gold ring that he'd cut off the little finger of a giant he had once killed on a walk he took.
gpt
What a fellow! said Stephen.
human
Prince in disguise, Alice?
gpt
Why, father, of course he was!
human
And that fellow Dennehy dares to call himself a republican! Now who--who, I ask you--would give a fig for a President in disguise? Read me some more Princesses, Alice.