human
They'd be ripping if we could get the right properties, she agreed.
gpt
Could we manage beds enough to look like a hospital? Yes, those small forms would do, I dare say. The employment bureau will be easy enough. The drawing-room scene would be no end, if we could make it up-to-date. I ought to be an officer home on leave, and you're my long-lost love, and we have a dramatic meeting over the coffee cups!
human
Gorgeous! Oh, we must do it! Shall I droop tenderly into your arms? What shall I wear?
gpt
Some outdoor costume, with a picturesque hat. I must have a uniform, of course.
human
A brown waterproof with a leather belt?
gpt
I hate these make-ups out of girls' clothes! I'd like a real genuine uniform to do the thing properly.
human
But we couldn't get one!
gpt
Yes, we could. It's your exeat on Wednesday, and you might borrow your brother's. He's in bed, and can't wear it.
human
What a ripping notion! gasped Marjorie.
gpt
But I couldn't carry a great parcel back to school. Norty'd see it, and make one of her stupid fusses.
human
We must smuggle it, then. Look here, when you go to your aunt's make the clothes into a parcel and leave it just inside the gate. I've a friend at Whitecliffe, and I'll manage to write to her and ask her to call and take it, and drop it over the wall at Brackenfield for me.
gpt
Won't Norty ask where we got it, when she sees you wearing it?
human
She might be nasty about it beforehand, but I don't believe she'd say anything on the evening, especially if the charade goes off well. It's worth risking.
gpt
You'd look ripping in Leonard's uniform! Of course it would be too big.
human
That wouldn't matter. Will you get it for me?
gpt
Right oh!
human
Good. Then I'll write to my friend.
gpt
You're writing now! chuckled Marjorie, for Chrissie had been scribbling idly on the blotting-paper while she talked.
human
Look what you've put, you goose! 'Christine Lange!' Don't you know how to spell your own name? I didn't think it had an _e_ at the end of it!
gpt
What an idiot I am! I can't imagine why I should stick on an extra _e_. Lang is a good old Scottish name.
human
Are you related to Andrew Lang, the famous author?
gpt
I believe there's a family connection.