human
Weren't you very angry?
gpt
I? Oh, no. It was he who was angry--my father. I think he was too hard on me, but it didn't matter very much. It was probably very badly written, though at the time I thought it was good.
human
Well, I must be off. Thank you so much for telling me, Mrs. Walbridge. Did you go on writing at once then?
gpt
Oh, no. I didn't write again until--until after my marriage.
human
I don't know why I told you, except, perhaps, that it happened, the burning of 'Hannah,' I mean, thirty-five years ago to-day. I was thinking about it before you came.
gpt
That makes her fifty-two, he said.
human
I thought she was older than that.
gpt
as de Amicis calls it, a feeling of great pity swept over him.
human
How it must have hurt, he thought,