human
Truly, I know not what, she answered;
gpt
The Earl, belike, reads an hour or two with his tutor, seeing he is but a child: and the rest of the time is there music and dancing, riding the great horse, playing at billiards, tennis, bowls, and such like. That is your cousin's business, Mrs Lettice.
human
Only that?--but I reckon he cannot be let go, but must come after his master's heels?
gpt
He is on duty but three days of every week, save at the _lever_ and _coucher_, and may go whither he list on the other four.
human
Then I marvel he comes not oftener to visit us,
gpt
Do you so? I don't,
human
Why?
gpt
How old are you, Mrs Lettice?
human
I was twenty last June,
gpt
Dear heart! I should have supposed you were about two,
human
But my grandmother thinks so likewise, and she is near eighty,
gpt
Ah! Extremes meet,