human
One Saturday Grace went down town to do a little shopping, and she stopped at a jeweller’s and asked to look at some diamond brooches. Some people could never understand why she did it, for, of course, she couldn’t have bought diamonds any more than she could have bought the moon. I suppose it was rather silly, but surely it isn’t unheard of, Peggy, for people to examine things they can’t afford to buy. Anyway that was what Grace did. And when she said she didn’t care to buy, and started to go out, the clerk stopped her and said he begged her pardon but there was a brooch missing.
gpt
Yes, but that was only the beginning. Grace went back, and they looked all over the counter, and the floor-walker came up, and things began to be dreadful. And then they said that she would have to be searched. Only think! Grace was almost ready to faint, she was so frightened. It was like a terrible dream, she said. It didn’t seem as if it could be such things were really happening to her. And then she thought of Carlton, and begged them to telephone for him, and he came.
human
O, but that was the worst of all. For when he heard about it, he asked if he might speak to her alone, and then he begged her to confess. Yes, Peggy, he thought she stole it. You see he knew that she hadn’t any money for buying diamonds, and the only way he could explain what she had done was to take it for granted that she was a thief. And then Grace lost her courage. If Carlton didn’t believe in her, nobody would. She screamed out that she wished she were dead, and they heard it and thought it proved that she was guilty.