human
It looks like a jeweler's box, she said jokingly as she opened it.
gpt
Why it is!
human
How perfectly lovely! cried Rosemary.
gpt
Is it mine?
human
Of course it is, said Sarah.
gpt
Jack and Shirley and I went to Mr. Evans and bought it for you. Do you like it?
human
Why it's darling, the enthusiastic Rosemary assured her.
gpt
I never saw a prettier pin. Look, Hugh, look Aunt Trudy,
human
Why don't you ask where we got the money to buy it?
gpt
You'll be the death of me yet, Sarah, he protested.
human
Sit down, people, do, and we'll begin luncheon while Sarah reveals her dark secret.
gpt
announced Sarah with dignity.
human
Hugh said we might take the ring-fund money, Rosemary, and buy you something nice with it, and if we saw anything we thought you'd like, to tell him, and he'd give us as much more money as we needed. Then Aunt Trudy said she wanted to put some money with the ring-fund money, and so did Winnie and so did Jack, so everybody did. Oh, yes, Hugh did, too. And we saw this pin and Shirley and I thought it would be nice because it had the turquoise in it like Aunt Trudy's ring, and Jack said it was a 'friendship circle' and that meant we were all friends of yours. So we bought it and it was seven dollars and a half,
gpt
It's just beautiful, said Rosemary, with an April face of smiles and tears.
human
I'll always keep it and love you all for thinking so much of me.
gpt
Rosemary earned the money fairly and squarely, he argued.
human
She earned it by the hardest kind of work and it seems mean to make her feel cheap. Those women were paying for service and they got it, and they don't think any the less of Rosemary, either, if Aunt Trudy does moan along about 'degrading' the family. You're forever preaching that there is no disgrace in any kind of honest work, Hugh--
gpt
Oh, quit, I'm licked! surrendered the doctor, laughing.
human
I won't mention the money to Rosemary, Jack. Though when I think of that child spending long, hot afternoons amusing cranky kids for pay--Still, it's pluck like that that makes the backbone of our country. What do you say if we take this money and buy her some little personal gimcrack? Girls like things to wear, I've always heard.