human
Come and sit by me, Margaret. I want to talk with you.
gpt
What do you want to talk about, love?
human
Are you happy?
gpt
Indeed, yes. Why do you ask? was the reply.
human
Have you not been making my life a bed of roses ever since your blessed eyes first rested on me?
gpt
Is there some one whom you wish exceedingly to see?
human
Why, Mrs. Sedgwick, do you ask me so strange a question?
gpt
My dear, there is a paper for you to read. I am going to Rose for a few minutes. When I return, you may tell me anything you please, or nothing at all, as you please; only let me tell you first that before my husband went to Nevada, he went to another State, lived there with a great-hearted man for a year, and that man was with him when he left me at the church door on my wedding day, and they have been together since, except when my husband left him to go to America to buy machinery and came back this way to join him again.
human
He is in the library, said Rose;
gpt
Then come with me, said Grace. Once in the library, she said:
human
I have news from my James this morning. He cabled me from Suez. He is coming home, and he wants us to meet him at Naples. Mr. Jordan has been with him--is coming with him, is ill, I fear very ill, and he wants us to meet him, I believe chiefly on that dear man's account. I shall leave this afternoon; can you go with me?
gpt
I can,
human
I can,
gpt
I am so glad, said Grace.
human
And say, there must be nothing said to the servants, except that we have run over to the continent on a lark, for a few days. And now good-bye until we are ready.