human
It is--it is! she cried,
gpt
May Everard!
human
May Everard! Sir Rupert echoed--
gpt
At your service, _monsieur_! To think you should have forgotten me so completely in a decade of years. For shame, Sir Rupert Thetford!
human
Oh! what a surprise! Miss Jocyln cried breathlessly.
gpt
Have you dropped from the skies? I thought you were in France.
human
Did you? So I was, but I ran away.
gpt
Ran away! From school?
human
Something very like it. Oh! how stupid it was, and I couldn't endure it any longer; and I am so crammed with knowledge now that if I held any more I should burst; and so I told them I had to come home; but I was sent for, which was true, you know, for I felt an inward call; and as they were glad to be rid of me, they didn't make much opposition or ask unnecessary questions. And so, folding the fairy hands and nodding her little ringleted head,
gpt
But, good heavens! cried Sir Rupert, aghast,
human
All alone, said May, with another nod.
gpt
I'm used to it, you know; did it last vacation. Came across and spent it with Mrs. Weymore. I don't mind it the least; don't know what sea-sickness is; and oh! didn't some of the poor wretches suffer this time! Isn't it fortunate I'm here for the ball? And, Rupert, good gracious! how you've grown!
human
Thanks. I can't see that you have changed much, Miss Everard. You are the same curly-headed, saucy fairy I knew thirteen years ago. What does my lady say to this escapade?
gpt
Nothing. Eloquent silence best expresses her feelings; and then she hadn't time to make a scene. Are you going to ask me to dance, Rupert? because if you are, said Miss Everard, adjusting her bracelet,
human
Not at all, Miss Jocyln interposed, hastily, and reddening a little;
gpt
I am engaged, and it is time I was back, or my unlucky cavalier will be at his wit's end to find me.