human
Well?
gpt
Well?
human
What next?
gpt
The Lord knows!
human
Something has to be done. We are up against a dead wall again. And for some reason it strikes me as a deader wall than ever before.
gpt
We cannot stay in Banbridge any longer?
human
We may have to,
gpt
You mean?
human
There may be a little difficulty about getting out. We could not leave the State, anyhow, and--
gpt
And what? We can go somewhere else in the State, I suppose. I am not particularly in love with this section of the union, but it all makes little difference after one reaches a certain point.
human
Poor old girl!
gpt
Oh, well, said she,
human
I have faced the situation and chewed my cud of experience for a good many years now, and I am used to it. I may even end up by tasting the sweet in the bitter.
gpt
You had as hard an experience in another line as I had. I don't know but it was harder.
human
No harder, I reckon, Anna replied, almost indifferently.
gpt
It was the same thing--the doll stuffed with sawdust, and all that; you with a friend, and I with a lover. Well, it is all over now.
human
It isn't; that is the worst of it,
gpt
I don't see why.
human
A sequence is never over. There is even all eternity for it.
gpt
Well, the first of the sequence is over, anyhow. All we have to consider is the succeeding stages.
human
That is about enough.
gpt
I agree with you there, dear. Well, I suppose the stage of the sequence for immediate consideration is the feasibility of emerging into the next stage. You think it is likely to be more difficult for the wandering tribe of Carroll to make their exodus with grace and dignity than usual?
human
It rather looks that way now.
gpt
I suppose that promoting business, that business transacted in the New York office, got you into rather hotter waters than usual.
human
There _was_ an office, I suppose.
gpt
One never knows, said she.
human
I suppose that was a delegation from the office, to-night, the two pretty girls and the winking young man.
gpt
Yes,