human
Well, and how is it really with your master this time?
gpt
I do not know--but he is entirely unlike himself,
human
Nonsense, said the doctor curtly.
gpt
I must know that better. You give him the usual medicines, and then above all see that you get him away from his writing desk today, and out into the open air; but take care that for his especial recreation he does not pack a folio along with him. Do you hear?
human
She has gone out, replied Frau Stephen in a very ill humor.
gpt
She went at four, and, as usual, alone. Speak with her, doctor, I implore you, once again, and represent to her the impropriety and adventuresomeness of these long, solitary walks.
human
I? said the doctor;
gpt
Expostulate! cried the old lady, angrily;
human
And do you really believe I should succeed any better?
gpt
But half the city is already talking about the freedom of this girl cried the Frau Doctor, excitedly,
human
Everybody thinks us accountable for it all, and everybody is wondering why we allow her to go on as she does.
gpt
Is that really so? returned the doctor with stoical calmness.
human
Well, then, I only wish that all these people who are criticising us, could have Jane Forest in their houses a single week just to test their own authority. They would soon get tired enough of trying to control her. Jane, with her bluntless, and our professor up there with his gentleness, are two obstinate mortals, with whom all B. can do nothing. And so the only thing you and I can do about it, wife, is just let them both have their own way.