human
It’s very good of you—and really I am beginning to feel the cold. Will you show me where to sit? I am absolutely ignorant, and it is so many years since I played games.
gpt
Life’s a game all through. We all say it, but what else can we say? We’re in the long field most of the time, and when we get an innings, Fate goes and bowls us a curly one. I’ve never had an innings in my life, and I’ve been fielding for fifteen years—since I was seventeen—and my poor old father played on in Mark Lane and lost his house the ’ashes.’ That’s my story, and I don’t tell it to everyone. Perhaps I have no right to tell it to you—but you seem so different, Mrs. Kennaird; I feel I can talk to you, and that’s what I feel about very few people.
human
You pay me a great compliment, she said, and then,
gpt
But we are both quite strangers here. This is my first visit to Switzerland in the winter; I know nobody.
human
But I thought that I knew you directly I saw you—I shall remember where we met by and by. Had you relatives down Newmarket way, I wonder—people who used to live at Holmswell?
gpt
Then I’m quite wrong; now let’s get going. You sit in front and I’ll steer—don’t be afraid, I shan’t upset you. They laugh at me in the hotel, but I’m going to have some fun with them before I get through. Are you quite ready—shall we let her rip?
human
Yes, and he pushed the toboggan off the bank. Had he been less nervous, he would have said that the