human
Why are you not dressed?
gpt
What's the matter with this?
human
This, said Aunt Lawrence, with marked emphasis,
gpt
I'm not going to the Langdons' box.
human
You were, and Mr. Forrest was to dine here and take you.
gpt
Mr. Forrest left for the West on sudden orders at noon, and came at ten to tell me.
human
You don't mean to tell me you've given up going because that man's ordered off? Child, child, you are simply bent on ruining yourself socially. I don't wonder people say you're daft about him.
gpt
Who says I'm daft about him?
human
Well, not just that, perhaps, returned Mrs. Lawrence.
gpt
But that's what they will say now. Surely Mrs. Langdon could ask somebody in his place who could have escorted you,--or else I could.
human
Mrs. Langdon did invite somebody else,--two somebody elses, in fact, as my letter urged her to do. Fanny Tracy was wild to go, and Captain Farwell wild to take her. I did a charitable thing in suggesting them.
gpt
Then the result of that piece of charity will be that all Chicago will say you are so much in love with that man you couldn't go 'Faust' when he went away.
human
Chicago has too many other things to think of, and---- Where's papa?