human
I'm just framing a definition of business ethics, she stated;
gpt
Business ethics consists in finding a man who has some money, and hitting him behind the ear with a sand-bag, explained the colonel.
human
Even your price is a holdup, Gresham; but I think I can buy it for less when the time comes--if I want it.
gpt
You'll have four months to make up your mind,
human
I thought your option was for only thirty days.
gpt
It's renewable three times.
human
Bless my soul! shouted the colonel.
gpt
That puts an entirely different face upon the matter. If you don't want too much money for it, Gamble, I don't mind confessing that I'd like to build an extension to my factory on that property. Now that my defenses are down, soak me.
human
I couldn't refuse a little thing like that. I'll soak you all I can. I said fifty-five thou-sand, you know.
gpt
You didn't mean it, though!
human
What did I mean then?
gpt
You meant forty thousand.
human
As a mind-reader you're a flivver, chided Gamble.
gpt
I'll let you down one notch, Colonel. I'll make it fifty thousand--and not one cent less.
human
Do you really mean that, Johnny?
gpt
I really mean it.
human
Well, if you say you really mean it you really mean it. I know you well enough for that, admitted the colonel with a sigh.
gpt
It's a rank robbery though. I'll take you, Johnny.
human
If you don't mind, I'll just transfer my option to the colonel,
gpt
The game is in your hands--for the present,
human
We'll just fix it up that way, then, Colonel. Polly, lend me your fountain-pen again. Colonel, you may hand me your check for seventeen thousand five hundred. You may pay the balance of the money to Gresham--upon delivery, I suppose, of the deed.
gpt
Surely,