human
But you’ve got a very good tenant, Maggie,
gpt
She’s got a very good tenant, admitted! Albert said judicially and almost sternly.
human
But she’d never have any difficulty in finding a very good tenant for that house. That’s not the point. The point is that the investment really isn’t remunerative. Maggie could do much better for herself than that. Very much better. Why, if she went the right way about it she could get ten per cent on her money! I know of things.... And I bet she doesn’t get three and a half per cent clear from the house. Not three and a half.
gpt
Do you mean the rent’s too low?
human
I don’t say it’s too low. But Maggie perhaps took the house over at too big a figure.
gpt
And whose fault was that? she asked sharply. The general surprise was intensified. No one could understand Maggie. No one had the wit to perceive that she had been truly annoyed by Auntie Hamps’s negligence in regard to jam, and was momentarily capable of bitterness.
human
Whose fault was that? she repeated.
gpt
You and Clara and Edwin settled it between you. You yourself said over and over again it was a fair figure.
human
I thought so at the time! I thought so at the time! said Albert quickly.
gpt
We all acted for the best.
human
I’m sure you did,
gpt
I should think so, indeed!
human
Is Edwin thinking of buying, then?
gpt
We’ve discussed it,
human
Because if he is, he ought to take it over at the price Mag took it at. She oughtn’t to lose on it. That’s only fair.
gpt
I’m sure Edwin would never do anything unfair,