human
They're all right, answered Hannah briefly.
gpt
And I am so glad to be here! Isn't it just the dearest, sleepiest place you ever saw in all your life?
human
Is it your first visit here? asked Miss Lyndesay.
gpt
I supposed you knew these villages by heart.
human
I don't, confessed Hannah.
gpt
I go to school all winter, and in the summer we go to the shore, and we haven't any aunts or grandmothers or things like that living around here, so I don't see places like this except in passing through them.
human
Well, you have a sort of aunt and grandmother combined living in Brookmeadow now, and I shall expect you to visit her often. How does it seem to you, Frieda?
gpt
It's bigger than I thought it would be, answered Frieda.
human
Hannah said it was a _Dorf_. I thought there would be only two or three houses, and many little huts all close together, but we passed many houses.
gpt
It is a good thing for you to see a New England village, said Miss Lyndesay,
human
I did, laughed Hannah.
gpt
Why, it looked as though it had been laid out with a ruler, and the trees were so little I felt as though they ought to be in flower-pots.
human
Not the beech woods, surely?
gpt
Dear me, no. But in the town itself. The beech woods are real forest. Is this the house? O, Aunt Clara, wouldn't Catherine _love_ it?