human
My dear, do as you like. You are old enough and wise enough to choose for yourself--your aunt's opinion to the contrary notwithstanding. Only, if you don't mind----
gpt
What is it, daddy-prof?
human
Why, if you don't mind, repeated the professor,
gpt
I'd rather you didn't inform me where you decide to spend your summer until I am off. I--I don't mind knowing after I am at sea--and your aunt cannot get at me.
human
You take it for granted that I am going to Cape Cod,
gpt
No--o. But I know how sorely I should be tempted myself, realizing your aunt's trying disposition.
human
Perhaps this--this half-uncle may be quite as trying.
gpt
Impossible!
human
What? she cried.
gpt
Traitor to the family fame?
human
You do not know Cape Cod folk. I do, he told her rather seriously.
gpt
Some of them are quaint and peculiar. I suppose there are just as many down there with traits of extreme Yankee frugality as elsewhere in New England. But your mother's people, as I knew them, were the very salt of the earth. Our wanderings were all that kept you from knowing the old folk before they passed away.
human
You tempt me,