human
You are Miss Bingham? Ah, I guessed it.
gpt
By what token?
human
By your beauty, shall we say? Gossip has so much to tell about it, and about the Vicarage garden, with Nidd River swirling past the ferry-steps.
gpt
The good Vicar is fortunate in his garden,
human
And in his water-nymphs, ’twould seem. I think you would be like some comely dream—on an April evening, say, with the young leafage of the trees for halo.
gpt
Oh, it is pleasant to be flattered! But why this praise of me? We were strangers not an hour ago.
human
I have heard so much of you. You were so kind to the men who sortied from Knaresborough and returned with wounds. You sat by the ferry-steps—all like a good angel—and bound their hurts afresh when they smarted. Oh, indeed, we have heard of your pleasant skill in healing.