human
Betty, said Lucia,
gpt
Mother is going to entertain for me this spring and you are the first one I want to invite. I haven't had you over at all.
human
But I haven't had you either, said Betty.
gpt
We just couldn't manage parties some way this year with all that has been going on at school and Mother so busy and Father working so hard, too. You were the stranger to be invited.
human
But I know perfectly well that it was Mother's place to show some attention to your father and mother. But Mother has been considerably upset--about some of our affairs. She's been in the social columns of the papers all right, but she's not done any of the entertaining herself.