human
I'll show him! Young upstart! Settin' the women on me! Ha! Thinks he can do as he pleases forever and ever, amen! I'll show him!
gpt
What d'you mean by it?
human
Mean by what, dad?
gpt
Settin' your ma and the girls on me? They all lit on me at once. All crying together some foolishness about your marrying this Grayling girl and putting the family into society.
human
Into society? murmured Lawford.
gpt
I--I don't get you.
human
You know what they're after, cried the candy manufacturer.
gpt
If a dynamite bomb would blow in the walls of that exclusive Back Bay set, they'd use one. And now it turns out this girl's right in the swim------I thought you said she was a picture actress?
human
I thought she was,
gpt
Bah! You thought? You never thought a thing in your life of any consequence.
human
But it makes no difference--no difference at all, I tell you. If she was the queen of Sheba I'd say the same, went on the candy manufacturer wildly.
gpt
I've said you shall marry Dorothy Johnson--I've always meant you should; and marry her you shall!
human
No, dad, I'm not going to do any such thing.