human
Fixing up like other girls,
gpt
Your best dress and lace bow,
human
Yes, replied Ruth,
gpt
One would think you expected somebody.
human
So I do; a gentleman.
gpt
O, Guy, you mean; but what is the reason you have your best dress on?
human
Indeed that is the very reason. I don't know for whom I should want to dress, if not for Guy.
gpt
Of course, Ruth, we should do more for him than for anyone, but you are so careful of your good clothes, and so seldom wear them at home.
human
Well, I have been thinking perhaps I had better pay more attention to my appearance. Fix up a little more to be like other people, I mean. One feels better satisfied with herself when she is looking well. And then, Agnes, as Guy goes more into society, I fancy he is becoming fastidious.
gpt
Yes, I suppose so, returned Agnes, re-arranging her neck-tie.
human
How do I look, Ruth; does this dress look shabby?
gpt
Shabby! one would scarcely know that it is not new. You always look well dressed; but it takes a great deal of fixing to set me off.
human
Why, girls, this is a feast fit for a king! carried with it, greater pleasure, than the most graceful compliment from other lips could have done. After dinner they walked out together