human
Why, Tom, laughed Donelle,
gpt
I don’t, but I want you.
human
Tom, who do you call company?
gpt
Mam’selle’s boarder, that Mr. Alton.
human
Don’t you like him, Tom?
gpt
Yes, I like him well enough, and that’s the trouble. I don’t want to like people unless there is a reason. I can’t find a reason for this man.
human
What is he here for anyway, Donelle?
gpt
Why don’t you go up to his wood-cabin and see, Tom? He’s asked you.
human
Yes. But I’m not going.
gpt
Why, Tom?
human
I’m too busy.
gpt
I wish you would go, Tom. I wish you could see his pictures. Why, Tom, you’d feel like taking the shoes off your feet.
human
Not while the weather’s so cold,
gpt
But, Tom, that’s the reason for Mr. Alton. He is getting our woods and skies and river safe on his canvases. He’s going to take them back to people who have never seen such things.
human
Why don’t they come and board here, then, and see them for themselves? Tom threw a log viciously on the fire.
gpt
You don’t mean he’s doing this to give a lot of people pleasure?
human
Tom, he sells his pictures; he gets a great deal of money for them.
gpt
Umph! Then,
human
Has he ever put you in the pictures, Donelle?
gpt
No, Tom.
human
I’m glad. I’d hate to have a lot of strangers staring at you.
gpt
Tom, you’re scrouchy. Let me play for you.