human
Look here, dear man, do you in the least realise how extremely far gone you were when I arrived to you on Barnes Common this evening? Because I tell you plainly I didn't in the very least like it. In my opinion it is high time you gave up dragging that Barking Brothers & Barking cart.
gpt
I shall give up doing so very soon, Iglesias replied.
human
Just now I am acting as manager. Sir Abel is at Marienbad, and the other partners are out of town.
gpt
I like that--lazy animals!
human
But the situation is in process of righting itself--has practically righted itself already.
gpt
Thanks to you.
human
In part, no doubt. There was a disposition to panic, which rendered it exceedingly difficult to get accurate and definite information at first. However, I arrived at the necessary data with patience and diplomacy, and was able to draw out a clear detailed statement. This proved so far satisfactory that Messrs. Gommee, Hills, Murray & Co. and Pavitt's Bank have considered themselves justified in undertaking to finance Barking Brothers until business in South Africa has resumed its ordinary course.
gpt
Then the elderly plungers are saved?
human
Yes, I believe, practically they are saved, Iglesias said.
gpt
And, therefore, as soon as Sir Abel has finished his cure and returns I shall retire.
human
Sir Abel's cure be hanged! she cried.
gpt
What do I care about his idiotic old liver or his gout, or anything else. Let him pay the price of steadily over-eating himself for more than half a century. I've no use for him. What I have a use for is you, dear man; more than ever now, don't you see, her voice softened, became caressing,