human
It's a little off color to walk much on the cliffs; you lose caste if you bathe in the surf. What can you do?
gpt
Oh, explained Miss Lamont,
human
A nice lady, was Mrs. Benson's comment when Mrs. Glow had taken herself away with her charmingly-scented air of frank cordiality--
gpt
I suppose we shall have to go.
human
Have to go, child? I should think you'd like to go. I never saw such a girl--never. Pa and me are just studying all the time to please you, and it seems as if--
gpt
Why, mother dear --and the girl, with tears in her eyes, leaned over her and kissed her fondly, and stroked her hair--
human
What an old frump the mother is! was Mrs. Glow's comment to Stanhope, when she next met him;
gpt
She is a kind-hearted, motherly woman,
human
Oh, motherly! Has it come to that? I do believe you are more than half gone. The girl is pretty; she has a beautiful figure; but my gracious! her parents are impossible--just impossible. And don't you think she's a little too intellectual for society? I don't mean too intellectual, of course, but too mental, don't you know--shows that first. You know what I mean.
gpt
But, Penelope, I thought it was the fashion now to be intellectual--go in for reading, and literary clubs, Dante and Shakespeare, and political economy, and all that.
human
Yes, I belong to three clubs. I'm going to one tomorrow morning. We are going to take up the 'Disestablishment of the English Church.' That's different; we make it fit into social life somehow, and it doesn't interfere. I'll tell you what, Stanhope, I'll take Miss Benson to the Town and County Club next Saturday.
gpt
That will be too intellectual for Miss Benson. I suppose the topic will be Transcendentalism?
human
No; we have had that. Professor Spor, of Cambridge, is going to lecture on Bacteria--if that's the way you pronounce it--those mites that get into everything.
gpt
You can make yourself as disagreeable as you like to me, but mind you are on your good behavior at dinner tonight, for the Misses Pelham will be here.