human
What we must do, and what I must ask you to promise, may at first seem to you ridiculous, he said.
gpt
Yet your acceptance of my conditions is a matter of life or death, not to any one here present, but to another, whom we are about to visit. What I require is this: you are to put on, as we shall, the costumes in these valises, which are after the fashion of the early sixteenth century. Indeed, when our journey is resumed, there must be about us nothing to suggest the present age. Moreover, I must have your most earnest promise that when we reach our destination you will refrain from giving the least hint, by word or action, that the sixteenth century has passed away. If you feel unable to carry out this deception, we must leave you here. The slightest blunder would be fatal.
human
Am I wrong to have brought him? he demanded, distractedly.
gpt
Can I depend on him at every point? You two, and Laura and Lina, know what it would mean if he should make a slip.