human
A pedler! Priscilla repeated disdainfully.
gpt
She must be very observing. Well, Peggy. After you explained--
human
That seemed to make it all the worse, admitted Peggy, finding a little relief, it must be acknowledged, in the sympathy called out by her confession.
gpt
She can’t have been used to neighbors, that’s sure. She said they weren’t objects of charity, and shut the door in my face.
human
Maybe they fought the currants was flies. I did till I bited ’em.
gpt
O, Dorothy, what a killing child you are! cried Amy, giving way to helpless laughter, and this time she had plenty of company. Peggy was the only one of the quartet who made any effort to conceal her merriment, Peggy having a singular theory that children should be treated just as courteously as older people. She looked regretfully at the small, erect figure marching out of the room with an air of stately displeasure.
human
O dear! she sighed.
gpt
I’m afraid we’ve hurt her feelings. Dorothy does hate to be laughed at.
human
Then she’d better give up making such speeches, remarked Amy, wiping her eyes.
gpt
But to go back to Peggy’s new friend--Elaine--
human
Yes, just to think of her slamming the door in Peggy’s face, cried Ruth, whose customary gentleness had quite disappeared in resentment over Peggy’s snubbing.
gpt
If she doesn’t want neighbors she needn’t have any. I move that we let her alone, just as much as if she lived down town somewhere.
human
We didn’t tell you, Peggy, Priscilla exclaimed, taking up the tale.
gpt
But we found out the sort of girl she was the day you came. We thought it was your hack, you know, and we rushed to grab you the minute you stepped out, and we were all screaming for you to hurry, and when this girl got out we felt cheap enough to go right through the sidewalk.
human
Yes, we did, interrupted Amy.
gpt
If there had been an open coal-hole handy it would have taken me about five seconds to disappear.
human
The way she took it showed the sort of girl she is, insisted Priscilla.
gpt
Instead of smiling, or saying that it didn’t matter, she acted as if we’d been so many hitching-posts standing in a row. Didn’t see us or hear us, either. I knew in a minute that I’d never have any use for her if she lived here a thousand years.
human
That’s just the way I feel,
gpt
Me, too,
human
O, girls, she pleaded, in tones of distress.
gpt
Let’s not be in such a hurry to make up our minds. You see, we’ve hardly seen anything of her.
human
Quite enough,
gpt
And things were rather against her both times, continued Peggy, disregarding the interruption.
human
When we come to know her we may like her awfully well.
gpt
And, anyway, concluded Peggy, falling back on the supreme argument,
human
Do you know what this roll reminds me of?
gpt
The first time I ever tasted one of Peggy’s rolls, Amy explained,
human
I’d forgotten the rolls, but I remember that picnic, Ruth said.
gpt
The picnics this year didn’t seem like the real thing, she added disconsolately,
human
Priscilla cried.
gpt
Why not go to-morrow?