human
My darling, can you guess when I first began to love you?
gpt
When?
human
That night in the dance,--the Spanish dance. We will go somewhere this winter and dance it over again; and the music beats will say--'I love you.'
gpt
Oh, so long ago?
human
Yes; and I have a visiting-card of yours. He hunts in his card-case.
gpt
Here it is--'Miss Nan Underhill.' I've kissed it thousands of times. I have almost worn it out. And when I went home I told my father about the little girl in New York that I must come back and win.
human
Oh, did you!
gpt
He is a delightful father. Some time I must take you over to see him, or he may come here. But he had promised that I should go to Ebberfeld; and so I did. The aunt had proposed the match.
human
And your poor cousin!
gpt
I couldn't have loved her anyhow. She seems older than I; and I am a very boy in heart. Then she was too large. I like little women.
human
I am so glad, she cries, with unaffected joy,
gpt
So when my father found how much in earnest I was, he planned the business change. It was my own mother's money, you know. But he has been a good father to me, and I am glad he has some other children. I was to go to Paris.
human
But you will get tired with all this long walk,
gpt
Oh, no, she returns.
human
Why, the walk has not seemed long.