human
I shall only show you now that I _can_ be patient. I never have been--I have confessed to that. Now I am going to the test. Meantime, you don’t realize, Alice, quite, how young you are, do you? Nor how much in earnest I am. Let us turn to that for a while.
gpt
Even love never begins but once. So, for every hour that passes, a memory; for every hour that tarries, a happiness; for every hour that comes, a hope. Do you remember?
human
I read it on your sun-dial.
gpt
Every one may read it there. Where I want you to read it is in my heart.
human
I wonder whether it is most what you say, or the way in which you say it, that gets people into trouble?
gpt
On the contrary; my life has been spent in getting people out of trouble, and in waiting to say things to you.
human
You are improving your opportunity in that respect. And you are losing a still more delightful opportunity, for you don’t know how much relief you can give me by leaving most of them unsaid.
gpt
It is impossible, of course, to embrace all of our opportunities--often impossible to embrace the cause of them.
human
Don’t pick me up in that way, please.
gpt
Would that I could in any way. Since I cannot, let me annoy you.
human
What makes you look so girlish to-day? And what is all this color around your eyes? Never wear anything but white. I never should myself, sighed Dolly.
gpt
You know Alice and I are off for the seashore,
human
So I hear.
gpt
Come along.
human
Who is going?
gpt
Everybody, I suppose. They all know about the trip.
human
Where do you dine?
gpt
On the shore near the light-house. Arthur is bringing some English friends out from town; we are going to dance.