human
I think the wisest thing for you to do would be to rent this house, furnished, if you can find a tenant----
gpt
We've done it!
human
That is, we have got a tenant if you think it is best, explained Douglas.
gpt
We were going to do nothing without your approval.
human
Oh, come now! I have no jurisdiction over you,
gpt
Isn't power of attorney jurisdiction? asked Lucy.
human
Nan says I can't have any more stockings until you permit me.
gpt
Well, well! I must be a terrible bugaboo to you! I don't feel at all qualified to judge of your stockings, little girl, or anything else pertaining to the female attire. It was the merest accident that I was given power of attorney. I am not in the least an appropriate person to be having it. I only consented to have it wished on me when I saw your father was becoming excited and tired over the unexpected hitch when the notary spoke of Miss Douglas's not being of age. I have transferred what cash your father has to your sister's account. I must find out from you whom you want to look after your affairs and consult that person----
human
But, Dr. Wright, we would lots rather have you, if you don't mind! exclaimed Douglas.
gpt
Any of our kinsmen that we might call on would insist upon our coming to live with them or make us go to some stuffy boarding house or something. They would not look at it as I believe you would at all. We have a scheme, too, but we want to hear yours first.
human
My scheme was, as I say, first to rent your house, furnished, and then all of you, with some suitable older person and some man whom you can trust, go and camp out on the side of the mountain in Albemarle. What do you say to it?
gpt
Dr. Wright, this is absolutely uncanny! exclaimed Douglas.
human
That is exactly what we were planning!
gpt
Only we were going you some better and were to have boarders,
human
Boarders, eh, and what do you know about keeping boarders?
gpt
We know enough not to do the way we have been done by at summer boarding houses where we have been sometimes.
human
Well, all I can say is that I think you are a pretty spunky lot. Please tell me which one of you thought up this plan. There must surely have been a current of mental telepathy flowing from one of you girls to me. It was you, I fancy, Miss Douglas.
gpt
No, I am never so quick to see a way out. It was Helen.
human
Yes, Helen thought of it, but I came mighty near doing it, declared Lucy.
gpt
I would have done it all the way but I went to sleep.