human
Your tactics were a little open, a little obvious, Lady Conybeare, if you will allow me to say so, he went on.
gpt
Delicious coffee! You exchanged so many glances with Lady Haslemere, and then looked up at me, that I could not fail to see you were watching for something. No man, I expect, likes to be suspected of so very paltry a crime as cheating at baccarat--a crime so hopelessly void of any grandeur--and no man, I am sure, likes a trap being laid for him by those whom he is entitled to consider his friends. And before I go on to the point I have in my mind I should like to say a word about this.
human
What you and Lady Haslemere saw, he went on--
gpt
There is no question of 'thought,' said Kit, whom a sense of danger made the more incautious;
human
Quite true. If you had observed a little more closely, you would have seen something else. Now, I ask you, the few times we have played baccarat together, did you ever see me fail to stake?
gpt
Not to my knowledge.
human
Quite so. If you had looked at the table a moment before, you would have seen I had nothing staked. What happened was this: I had staked four ten-pound counters and two fives; then, seeing that I had no more smaller ones, I withdrew them to substitute one fifty for them. At that moment I received my cards, and, taking them up I forgot for the moment to substitute my fifty. I looked at the cards, declared the natural, and you saw me push forward the fifty-pound counter quite openly, and, so you thought, clumsily. It never occurred to me for a moment there was any need of an explanation.
gpt
Very clumsily, she said;
human
It was stupid of me, no doubt, not to have explained at the time, he said,
gpt
But perhaps people are right to be suspicious,