human
Your father tells me you are going back to town to-morrow. Is that really a necessity? It is so long since you have been here, and this has been such a very short visit. I had hoped you would have stayed over Tuesday, and that we might have had some people to meet you on that day.
gpt
Thank you, said Jack shortly,
human
I can't afford any longer time. Mentally he was thinking,
gpt
Where on earth does the woman get her gowns?
human
You are working very hard, then?
gpt
Well, it's necessary.
human
I hope you will not think what I am saying interfering,--perhaps I might not have spoken, but that your father alluded to--to it at breakfast. It is your engagement I mean.
gpt
Pray do not think I am asking questions from curiosity. But sometimes pecuniary difficulties cause a great deal of unhappiness and--and I thought I would venture to say that if this were the case--
human
It is not, indeed.
gpt
Ah! She looked at him with wistful disappointment.
human
Then I must not say any more. It has always seemed to me a most grievous thing, that money should unnecessarily play such an important part in these matters, and I should have been very sorry if it had been allowed to do so with you.