human
I’m so glad to see you, I could just eat you up, Amy declared, seating herself on Peggy’s knee, as each of the others had preempted a side.
gpt
And to think of your staying six weeks, when you said you’d only be gone a month.
human
I hated to leave Alice, Peggy’s face clouded for a moment, as she spoke her sister’s name.
gpt
She isn’t a bit well. You know we are going to keep Dorothy with us for a while. She’s so full of life that she’s a tax on her mother.
human
I stood on a tacks once, observed Dorothy, suddenly becoming interested.
gpt
It sticked into me, and I hollered. She frowned meditatively as she added,
human
I don’t like you to call me a tacks, either.
gpt
It’s another kind, darling. O girls, you don’t know how good it seems to get back to the Terrace, where people know each other and are real neighbors. I don’t see how Alice stands it.
human
Is it so bad living in a very big city? Priscilla asked, rather doubtfully.
gpt
I believe I’d love it. I like crowds and noise and something happening every moment.
human
Just wait till I tell you. Alice lives in a flat, and there’s only one woman in the building whom she’d know if she met her on the street. One morning while I was there we heard the greatest commotion in the flat just over ours. Somebody screamed, and then we could hear somebody else hurrying around right over our heads, and then there was the sound of dreadful crying. The windows were open, you know, and we heard everything as plainly as you hear me.
gpt
Well, what had happened?