human
I wish you wouldn’t talk like that,
gpt
Why not?
human
Well, I wish you wouldn’t.
gpt
Anyhow, the rent has to be paid, I suppose.
human
And I wish it hadn’t. I wish we didn’t live in Maggie’s house.
gpt
Why?
human
I don’t like the idea of it.
gpt
You’re sentimental.
human
You can call it what you like. I don’t like the idea of us living in Maggie’s house. I never feel as if I was at home. No, I don’t feel as if I was at home.
gpt
What a kid you are!
human
You won’t change me,
gpt
Why is my brother so taken up with you? There must be an explanation, and your strange mother is the explanation. Edwin did not deny Maggie’s attitude to George, but he defended Maggie as a human being. Though dull,
human
Do you know what I’ve been thinking? Hilda went on.
gpt
Suppose you were to buy the house from Maggie? Then it would be ours.
human
What price ’the mania for owning things’? ... Would you like me to?
gpt
Oh! I should. I’ve often thought of it, she said eagerly. And at the same time all her gestures and glances seemed to be saying:
human
Humour me! I appeal to you as a girl pouting and capricious. But humour me. You know it gives you pleasure to humour me. You know you like me not to be too reasonable. We both know it. I want you to do this.