human
What do I owe you?
gpt
Just for to-day.
human
I haven't any change. Can you let it go until next time?
gpt
No,
human
Well, old Shylock, here's five. Consider yourself paid as long as that lasts.
gpt
I don't wish to do that. I'll bring you change.
human
Bother you, Jane Judd; what difference does it make whether you get it all at once, or in driblets?
gpt
Here, Jerry, I've got it even. You owe me,
human
All right; much obliged.
gpt
Good-night, Jane Judd,
human
Good-night,
gpt
Night,
human
Queer creature, that,
gpt
What's that?
human
Jane Judd. What do you suppose she thinks of us all?
gpt
God knows, and I care as little as He does.
human
I care. I'd like to know her. She's like steel, clean-cut, shining, efficient, silent, unbreakable.
gpt
Is she? I've never noticed,
human
She knows all our secrets, our economies, our loves, and hates. She mends us up, keeps us in order. Jane Judd is the law and order of our set. She glides among us, and we say everything we know before her, as if she were a wall.
gpt
Gog and Magog! Do I have to listen to you ramble on about Jane Judd? She interests me about as much as a Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine. Come on to dinner.
human
Man is the most incomprehensible animal evolved from protoplasm,
gpt
That remark doesn't seem to have any point, Bobs, but I suppose it has.
human
Thanks. From now on, I suppose only Bible allusions will have point to you.
gpt
Well, there's nothing Biblical about Jane Judd.
human
Humph! She might be the dim and vasty void out of which creation sprang.
gpt
Good Lord!