human
Well, my child, do just as you like, she said, rather more warmly, as she made an attempt to unfasten the top button of the ugly black garment that so disfigured her grand-daughter. With a shy gesture Erika raised her hands and held her poor gown together over her breast. There was something in the gesture that touched the old lady.
gpt
You may go, she said to the maid, who had meanwhile been unpacking Erika's travelling-bag.
human
I will ring for you when we want you. Then, turning to Erika, she added,
gpt
I will help you myself to undress.
human
Poor thing! she murmured, the words coming for the first time warm from her heart. Then, stroking the girl's long, slender, nobly-modelled arm, she said,
gpt
How fair you are! I only begin now to see what you look like. She lifted the heavy knot of shining hair from the back of Erika's neck, and, in an access of that absence of mind for which she was noted in the Berlin world of society, exclaimed,
human
What would Goswyn say if he heard me?