human
I found some grand ones.
gpt
Where did you get them?
human
Over back of that house.
gpt
Don’t pick any more there, dear. I guess those flowers belong to the people who live in the house. But all the flowers in the woods, and growing around the meadows, belong to everybody. She made a grimace at the other girls, over the head of the unconscious Estelle.
human
I’ve got to go up to the farmhouse and explain matters.
gpt
I’ll go with you, said Elaine, jumping to her feet, and the two started up the long slope, Peggy sighing penitently.
human
It was all my fault. I was so anxious those children shouldn’t think they were going to be arrested if they picked a dandelion, I guess I went a little too far the other way. Who would have thought that they would have stumbled on a garden first thing?
gpt
I’ve heard tell, she replied,