human
Do you remember the time the Millerites were making such an ado about the world coming to an end, Guy, how she went to mother and asked if it twisted itself round and round until it came to the end?
gpt
Don't I though, and the day she asked mother if _vertigo_ meant a monkey. When mother told her no and laughed, she said it must be some animal, for she read in the paper that a man went up into a tree and while there was seized with vertigo.
human
And the day she was transferred to another school, when she said she had a note of transubstantiation.
gpt
Yes, and
human
What are you going to do with yourselves, girls?
gpt
O we are going to stay at home and have a nice time; you know holidays don't come very often.
human
Well, you women folks have queer ideas of a nice time, if that is what you call staying in the house. Why, it is enough to make you stupid. Fix yourself up like other girls, and promenade; that is what I mean to do.
gpt
What, fix yourself up like other girls?
human
O precocious child, I must be careful!
gpt
Be sure to be back at one, was Ruth's reminder, and then the girls began to plan their
human
gpt
I'll wash the breakfast dishes, Ruth, while you make the beds, you tuck the counterpane in so smoothly and have the pillows so straight,