human
Phillis, my dear, said Agatha,
gpt
They _are_ so funny, said Phillis, laughing.
human
They sleep all day, and when they wake up they pretend to have been working. And they sit up all night. And, O Agatha! each one came to me just now, and told me he had a secret to impart to me.
gpt
What was that, my dear?
human
That the other one adored me, and might he hope?
gpt
But, Phillis, this is beyond a joke. And actually here, before my very eyes!
human
I said they might both hope. Though I don't know what they are to hope. It seems to me that if those two lazy men, who never do anything but pretend to be exhausted with work, were only to hope for anything at all it might wake them up a little. And they each said that the other would bring me a virgin heart, Agatha. What did they mean?
gpt
Well, my dear, it is a most uncommon thing to find in a man of fifty, and I should say, if it were true, which I don't believe, that it argued extreme insensibility. Such an offering is desirable at five-and-twenty, but very, very rare, my dear at any age. And at their time of life I should think that it was like an apple in May--kept too long, Phillis, and tasting of the straw. But then you don't understand.