human
Are you going to play to us?
gpt
I wish Miss Strange would play for me at my entertainment at the schools next week, said Mr. Pryor plaintively.
human
Won't you be persuaded, Miss Strange?
gpt
I'll play for you now if you like, she answered,
human
I wish he would! he said.
gpt
Couldn't you persuade him? I can't get the programme arranged properly.
human
Why, haven't you got the usual people?
gpt
Yes, yes, I have got the usual people. But perhaps, said Mr. Pryor, not unreasonably,
human
And it's rather awkward, Mr. Pryor continued,
gpt
Why, he sings nothing else!
human
Yes, he _does_ know two other songs, I believe, but they are, in my opinion, too broadly comic for such an entertainment as this. He hummed a little bit of one in my study one evening, in a _very_ subdued manner, of course, just to give me an idea. I saw at once that it would never do. I stopped him directly, but I found myself singing the very objectionable words about the parish for days. Not _aloud_, you know, not _aloud_!