human
What's your ambition? he blurted.
gpt
Going to just plug along and not get anywhere?
human
No, I'm not; but it's hard. Women aren't trusted in business, and you can't count without responsibility. All I can do is keep looking.
gpt
Go out for suffrage, feminism, so on?
human
I don't know anything about them. Most women don't know anything about them--about anything!
gpt
Huh! Most _people_ don't! Wouldn't have office-grinding if people did know anything.... How much training have you had?
human
Oh, public school, high school, commercial college.
gpt
Where?
human
Panama, Pennsylvania.
gpt
I know. About like my own school in Kansas--the high-school principal would have been an undertaker if he'd had more capital.... Gee! principal and capital--might make a real cunning pun out of that if I worked over it a little. I know.... Go to church?
human
Why--why, yes, of course.
gpt
Which god do you favor at present--Unitarian or Catholic or Christian Science or Seventh-Day Advent?
human
Why, it's the same--
gpt
Now don't spring that 'it's the same God' stuff on me. It isn't the same God that simply hones for candles and music in an Episcopal Church and gives the Plymouth Brotherhood a private copyright revelation that organs and candles are wicked.
human
You're terribly sacrilegious.
gpt
You don't believe any such thing. Or else you'd lam me--same as they used to do in the crusades. You don't really care a hang.
human
No, I really don't care!
gpt
Of course, I'm terribly crude and vulgar, but then what else can you be in dealing with a bunch of churches that haven't half the size or beauty of farmers' red barns? And yet the dubs go on asserting that they believe the church is God's house. If I were God, I'd sure object to being worse housed than the cattle. But, gosh! let's pass that up. If I started in on what I think of almost anything--churches or schools, or this lying advertising game--I'd yelp all night, and you could always answer me that I'm merely a neurotic failure, while the big guns that I jump on own motor-cars.