human
I'm out of luck, said Wells.
gpt
I've seen it coming for months, and ought to have been prepared. My typewriter has given me warning.
human
Going to be married, I suppose?
gpt
Yes, and within six weeks. She's a girl I simply can't replace.
human
Why not?
gpt
Because in my work only a well-educated and highly intelligent girl will answer. I have to dictate sometimes fifty letters a day filled with strange names and technicalities and foreignisms, and there's no time to consult dictionaries and the like,--no leisure, half the time, to read over the letters submitted for my signature. I must trust to my typewriter; and girls educated up to that standard come too high for our salary. I gradually taught Miss Stockton what she knows, so she was content with sixty dollars a month, but I can't get one who can do as well for a hundred, which is more by forty than the directors will allow me.
human
It is work that demands all a girl's time, I suppose?
gpt
Yes, every bit of it from nine to five, and often to six. She has her evenings at home, however, unless some of our library assistants are sick; then she would have to help at the shelves.
human
If you are in no great hurry, will you hold the offer open one week? I know a g--a lady, I should say, who is intelligence and accuracy combined, and who might take it. She has done much work for me, and I know her worth.
gpt
Would she come for sixty dollars, do you suppose?
human
I will ask her,