human
Well, said Leaver, turning suddenly to look at Burns with a smile,
gpt
I shall have to admit you have,
human
Why should you have doubted it?
gpt
I haven't been gone long enough for you to have read and digested it.
human
You were gone seventeen minutes. That's long enough to take in the argument pretty thoroughly. As to digesting it--it's indigestible. Why try?
gpt
No use at all. But having given my mental machinery a lot of friction I enjoyed trying to stir yours up also to irritation and discontent. But I haven't done it. You've remained calm where I grew hot. Also you've proved your ability to change the subject of your thinking as you would switch off one electric current and switch on another. It shows you're a well man.
human
I must warn you, as I have done at various times in our association: 'Don't jump to conclusions.' Your first one, that I hadn't read the chapter, was wrong. I had read it. Your second one, that, after all, I had read the chapter while you were in the house, was also wrong. I had read it by the side of the brook, an hour ago.