human
That rain, Jo remarked, her knitting needles clicking,
gpt
You say beautiful things sometimes, Mamsey. Then quite irrelevantly,
human
Why doesn’t any one ever come here? I should think everyone would be here all the time, other places are so ugly and other people so—so—well, so snoozy.
gpt
At first, the girl went on musingly,
human
I thought there were no folks; it was so empty outdoors. Then I saw people once in a while crawling along. Why do they crawl, Mamsey? You and I don’t. And then I ran around a bit, when no one was looking, and there are some horrid places, one place where only men go. It is nasty, dirty, and bad. It sort of makes all the houses seem smudgy. There was a big man at the door, and he saw me and he said, ’So you’re Mam’selle Jo Morey’s girl!’ just like that. And with this Donelle impersonated Dan Kelly so that his merest acquaintance would have recognized him.
gpt
And I made a very nice bow, to Jo’s blank horror, Donelle showed how she had done it,
human
You—you must never go near that place again,
gpt
I never will, Mamsey, for the smell kept coming back to me for days and days. And the man’s eyes—I saw them in my sleep, they were dirty eyes!
human
My God!
gpt
But Mamsey, why don’t we have folks in our lives. Is it because it is winter, and the roads bad?
human
Yes——
gpt
Well, I’m glad of that, for I love people. I even liked some of the Sisters. There was one who made me guess whenever I saw her, it was Sister Mary, she was little and pretty and had a sorry face as if she was lost and couldn’t find the way out. Almost I wanted to ask her to run away with me every time I tried to do it myself. And the babies were so jolly, Mamsey. I used to play that I could make nice, happy little lives for them. There was one, Donelle’s eyes dimmed,
human
Patsy I called her, her name was Patricia—such a big, hard name for such a cunning little tot. I fixed up a perfectly dear life for Patsy, but poor Patsy didn’t seem to want any kind of a life. She’d rather lie in my arms and rock. I used to sing to her. Then she died!