human
I suppose, I conceded at last,
gpt
Won't all the other girls be jealous! she cried.
human
I told some of them I should probably be going out to Africa in a few weeks time--and they were mad! Kitty Vincent said I was just boasting--and I wanted to fight her. . . .
gpt
You seem to have taken everything for granted, my child, I remarked.
human
Supposing I had refused? What then?
gpt
But, Daddy, I knew you wouldn't!
human
George, he said,
gpt
Perhaps you're right . . .
human
Sally in Our Alley. It was followed by
gpt
Sweet Alice Ben Bolt.
human
Oh, Molly! Oh! Molly Barnett . . . Oh, Molly--where e'er did she _get_? She's suddenly flown To regions unknown, Along with a man and his aeroplane-_ette_!
gpt
How's that for a modern version? Eh, George?
human
Very true to life!
gpt
Ah! he cried.
human
It's good to be so young that you can feel yourself back with some of those old songs again. I heard of 'Dorothy Dean' and her 'flying machine' at the Tivoli Music Hall--over fifty years ago. . . . And yet . . . I wasn't so young even then. It's a queer business, George!
gpt
minuet to his own whistled accompaniment, and even showed us how the old-time
human
That's the first dance I had with your great-great-grandmother,