human
Give me a taste of your tea, Daughter, she said, as she took off her gloves and her hat and seated herself.
gpt
It will take something as strong as tea to heal my weary spirit this afternoon. I've just had an emergency call.
human
Do tell us, do, do, Dr. Helen, she pleaded.
gpt
I know it's something funny, by the twinkle in your eye. And we'll never, never tell.
human
I don't tell tales about my patients, but there is no sense in a rule that isn't transgressed once in a while. You wouldn't know it was a rule! And I do believe you girls will enjoy this and never tell.
gpt
You 'give us credit for more discretion than you have, yourself?'
human
If you like to put it that way! I was overtaken on my way home to greet these visitors by a messenger from Mrs. Swinburne, saying that Elsmere was very ill. It is a wonder that he has lived as long as he has, with his reckless tendencies and such erratic care. So I hastened over to the house. Mrs. Swinburne was in a mild state of hysterics, and it was some time before I could quiet her enough to learn the difficulty. Then my alarm vanished, changed to wrath, would perhaps be more accurate. Elsmere had eaten all her pills! They were pills that would not have hurt a cat. Mrs. Swinburne's ailments are of a nature to require very weak remedies.
gpt
Bread and butter?
human
Something of that sort! But Elsmere did not know that. They might have been morphia or arsenic for all he knew. The principle in his case was the same. His mother said 'no symptoms had set in as yet,' but she wanted me to administer an antidote at once. I couldn't refuse her!
gpt
Mother! What did you do?
human
First I caused the patient to be removed to his own room and the doors to be closed. Then I gave him a sound scolding and a good smart spanking.
gpt
O dear Doctor Helen!
human
Did his mother hear you?
gpt
If she had, I was prepared to tell her it was necessary to restore the circulation. I was afraid the child might howl, but it was a new experience to him and he took it so very pleasantly that I am now worried for fear he liked it! Dr Helen set down her teacup and turned to Frieda.
human
You will think me a barbarous physician, Frieda, but really this boy has needed discipline for a long time, and there is no one to give it to him. His pranks are often dangerous.
gpt
Like the building of a fire under the barn to keep his cat warm.
human
Yes, and making a ladder of kindling wood and climbing up to the second story on it.
gpt
He is a pretty naughty boy, finished Dr. Helen,
human
O, you know, Frieda and I saw Miss Lyndesay just before we came away. Do tell about it, Frieda.
gpt
She is very wonderful, she said shyly.
human
She said: 'Let me greet myself to them.' She finds herself well, and her house is beautiful.
gpt
I am so glad. Thank you very much for bringing us direct word from her. See! this is the portrait she painted of Catherine some time ago. And Dr. Helen took Frieda a little apart to get a good light on the painting of Catherine and Hotspur, almost the only picture the big room with its walls of books contained. It developed that Frieda was very fond of dogs and her rapture over the picture made it necessary to call in the original, who instantly recognized in her a discriminating soul. Frieda dropped down on the leather window-seat and fondled his tawny sides with the deepest feeling of rest she had had in two days.
human
He understands me,
gpt
I'm going to ask you to go out on the river with me and talk German to me all alone. I've studied it in college, said Polly,