human
And pray, if one may ask, why did you leave the principal path yourself?
gpt
That you can easily learn; simply because I hoped, by coming along this lonely path, to escape the eloquent tongues of certain ladies,
human
Ah, how cross you are! Heaven shield us from such an irritable birthday hero! cried the lady, shuddering, and retreating a few paces with a comical assumption of terror.
gpt
It was a mistake that we did not come to you to-day with funereal faces, and muffled to the eyes in black crape!