human
True for you, Lorimer! he assented cheerily.
gpt
That is one of the doctrines I have spent my life trying to impress on the governor. I wish he felt it more borne in upon him. But, as you were saying, Sally, you're not expecting to become consistent. I'm glad, for you won't be disappointed. The brightest jewel in your crown will have to be of another color.
human
What color is consistency, Bobby?
gpt
Green, of course, reflected from the jealous eyes of the ninety and nine sinners who haven't the virtue.
human
I'm not at all certain that I wish to be consistent,
gpt
So glad for your sake!
human
Because consistent people are such bores, Miss Van Osdel?
gpt
So you are a heretic, too? And then they are so smug.
human
But there's consistency and consistency, Bobby argued.
gpt
There's mashed potato and frappé, for instance, equally hard, equally homogeneous, yet totally different. To my mind, there is a distinct choice between them, and I prefer--
human
Cherries in your frappé. Sally capped his sentence for him.
gpt
In other words, we all like a consistent person with lumps of inconsistency. That's myself, and one of my lumps is a dislike of having Mrs. Lloyd Avalons on our tenement committee.
human
But, if you are slumming--
gpt
That is ignoble of you, Beatrix. The committee doesn't slum within its own confines.
human
Oh, I didn't mean that at all, Beatrix protested hastily.
gpt
Really, though. I can't see why you and Mrs. Lloyd Avalons can't unite in working for somebody quite outside either of your worlds.