human
You see, said he,
gpt
Hardly, I replied.
human
I expected something very different from this, when I received your note. I did not come to see you expecting to be called to assist at the funeral solemnities of birds.
gpt
Nor did I send for you, he answered.
human
I merely wrote to ask about the lot in the grave-yard. But now you are here, why not help me? Do you fear the laugh of man?
gpt
No, I returned.
human
If I agreed with you in regard to this subject, I might, perhaps, have the courage to act out my convictions. But I do not look at it as you do. There is no reason, then, why I should have anything to do with it. I respect your convictions, but do not share them.
gpt
That is fair, he said.
human
I cannot ask anything more. I am obliged to you for coming to see me. My intention was to purchase a place in the burial-ground, and have them put into a coffin and carried in a hearse. I might do it without any one's knowing that it was not a human body. Would you assist me, then?
gpt
But if no one _knew_ it, I said,
human
True, it would not. Well, I will consider what to do. Perhaps I may wish to bury them privately in some garden.
gpt
In that case, said I,
human
I will find you a place in the grounds of some of my friends.