human
Splendid!
gpt
Better get ink, Ruth. Who ever heard of a last will and testament being written in pencil? Here! let me do it.
human
To you, whoever you may be (we hope the best ever), Ruth Biddle of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Annabel Jackson of Nashville, Tennessee, former occupants, do bequeath our good will, our confidence, our social standing (which is thrown in gratis along with the most expensive room in the school), and do entrust to your everlasting protection such of our possessions as you may find useful and necessary. The black cloths, which you will find in this secret hiding-place, fit the transoms over the door and in the bathroom. The candles you will find convenient for midnight feasts and orgies; the refrigerator indispensable for cold storage; the box couch excellent for provisions, such as Nabiscos, crackers and cookies. To you also we do bequeath the residue of our estate: the wicker tea-table; the picture of the Queen Louise; the china cat on the mantel-piece, which has proved an invaluable mascot. This together with our best wishes, congratulations, and the hope that you will continue to dispense hospitality and radiate good cheer and comfort from these portals. Signed:
gpt
Witnessed by:
human
You don't mean to say you're going to give your tea-table to utter strangers, do you, Annabel?
gpt
I don't mean to pay storage or freight on it. Certainly I'm going to leave it.
human
And the Queen Louise? I thought you adored her!
gpt
I did once, but she makes me so nervous, eternally coming down those stairs, gazing off into the distance as if she were treading on air. I'm getting terribly tired of her.
human
And the cat? You remember the day you bought that, Annabel? You were about the most homesick person in Boston. You said it looked like your own 'Lady Jane Grey' at home, and you cuddled it half the night. I don't see how you can part with it.
gpt
Oh, it goes with the room, Annabel answered indifferently.
human
You know yourself it's kept away mice. We've never had _one_, and look at Wee Watts' room, and the sky parlor--
gpt
Girls! she said excitedly,
human
Really, Blue Bonnet? Do you mean it?
gpt
Of course I mean it. And Annabel--isn't it too splendid?--every one of the Lambs has brought her average up to eighty, so we can all go! We are to leave Friday and get back early Monday morning. Patty's perfectly wild about it, and her mother's a dear.
human
Oh, Blue Bonnet, have you heard the news? We're to go--
gpt
I should say I have, Blue Bonnet interrupted.
human
I came to tell you.
gpt
Well, Angela got ahead of you. Come in. Patty will be up in a minute. She and her mother are making arrangements with Miss North. Isn't it too utterly splendid?
human
And Fairview Cottage is the most ideal spot in the world, Angela put in dreamily.
gpt
I'm so glad that it is full moon time. There's a place around Sargentville called Caterpillar Hill, with the most fascinating road winding up to it. I loved it so that I wrote an ode to it last year when I visited Patty.
human
Will the family all be there?
gpt
I fancy not, Angela said. Being Patty's room-mate, she was well up on the Paine affairs.
human
Mrs. Paine is going down to open the cottage for the summer. The servants all went yesterday. Patty says she's going to try to get the boys to come up over Sunday, but she isn't at all sure they can--they're at Yale, you know.
gpt
The boys
human
Isn't Sargentville the place where Ben Billings' family have a summer home?