human
And yet you manage to look as you do! It beats me, Poppy declared.
gpt
I tell you it knocks me out of time completely. For, if you'll excuse my being personal, there is an air about you not usually generated by an office stool--at least, in my experience. Where do you get it from? You can't be English?
human
I am a Spaniard by extraction,
gpt
There now, my dear man, don't you go and freeze up again. We were just beginning to get along so nicely, Poppy put in quickly.
human
I am having a capital good time, and you're not having an altogether bad one, are you? But, tell me, how long ago were you extracted?
gpt
Very long ago. I was brought to England as a baby child.
human
Oh! I didn't mean it that way, she returned.
gpt
I was not touching on the unpardonable subject of age; not that it would matter much in your case, for you are one of the lucky sort with whom age does not count. I only meant are you an all-round foreigner?
human
Practically--my mother was partly Irish.