human
Why don't you come to see me sometimes? the daughter and granddaughter was saying sweetly.
gpt
I think you will have to come now, for this was a party, and a party calls for a party-call. Oh, can you make as clever a pun as that?
human
Thank you--but I never pay calls.
gpt
Oh, but you are beginning to do a good many things that you never did before.
human
Yes, he answered with curious depression.
gpt
I am.
human
Well, don't look so glum about it. You mustn't think that any change in your ways of doing is necessarily for the worse!
gpt
Well! I am obliged to you for inviting me here to-day. It has been interesting and--instructive.
human
And now you have got us all neatly docketed on your sociological operating table, I suppose?
gpt
I am inclined to think, he said slowly,
human
No, said she, gently,--
gpt
Well, good-by--
human
And are you coming to see me--to pay your party-call?
gpt
Why should I? What is the point of these conventions--these little rules--?
human
Don't you _like_ being with me? Don't you get a _great deal_ of pleasure from my society?
gpt
I have never asked myself such a question.