human
That means losing good business, Mother. Folks want more and more nowadays, and they want it in a hurry.
gpt
Leave well alone, Alferd.
human
Suppose well can't be left alone? I ain't one to complain; I'm grateful to the Lord for His blessings, but if another likely young feller started a motor-'bus, he'd down-scramble me.
gpt
I allow you knows best about that.
human
And there's others.... You rub it well into me that this cottage'd hold more than a man and his mother. If I bring the others here, I must think of them. I'd like to do handsomely by them as come after us. Mother, his voice trembled a little,
gpt
If you give me they others, Alferd, I'll put up with this wondersome change. God's ways be our ways, if we look humbly into 'em. I did hear tell t'other day of a motor-hearse. Don't 'ee carry me to my grave in one!