human
You must admit, I added,
gpt
Thirty thousand! he exclaimed,
human
I should put it at about thirty dozen, from what we've seen--or _haven't_ seen--of them!
gpt
Anyway, eighty-seven into twenty-two won't go.
human
If you knock off sixty-five, it will!
gpt
It's hard lines on the old chaps you're going to 'knock off.'
human
That's their business. We've done our best. If we caught the whole lot of the anthropoids in existence--and such a thing may happen any day if gland-grafting becomes popular--we should still find we hadn't enough to satisfy everyone. There wouldn't even be sufficient glands for the septuagenarians in England alone. I believe that there are about one thousand five hundred million human beings on the earth, George--an absolute glut of people--and possibly thirty millions of them are ripe for monkey glands. The demand for the latter, at any rate, will always be fifty times greater than the supply. In our case it will be only four times greater. That's logic, isn't it?
gpt
Yes, I admitted.
human
Cold, hard logic for men who have travelled seven thousand miles for--nothing.
gpt
Nonsense! The voyage will have done them good. So will the 'physical jerks' they're going through at present. _I_ don't see what they'll have to complain about.
human
You will when you try to explain matters.
gpt
You leave it to me!
human
I've no intention of doing otherwise.
gpt
So you think we ought to go on--and on--and on?
human
I certainly think that we should do what we can until the dry season is over.