human
Although your conduct strikes me as--shall I say?--abnormal, I don't wish to insinuate anything disagreeable, my dear Frank; still, if you are sane I wish you'd prove it.
gpt
It's all very well to laugh--if you're supposed to be laughing--but, if you were in my position, you'd find it no laughing matter. I'm to be married next week.
human
That is a prospect calculated to turn the strongest brain; granted!
gpt
Look here, Jack, I'll throw something at you if you talk like that; I've come for sense, not idiocy. Under the circumstances Mr. Oldfield's continued absence--and silence--was pretty bad to bear; and now to be told he's dead----
human
Dead? you don't mean to say that Oldfield's dead!
gpt
So I was informed last night by two men, one named Nash, and the other Morgan. Nash introduced himself as Oldfield's solicitor, and Morgan said he was his sole executor. A more unclubable man than Morgan I never met; he's not even a good imitation of a gentleman; how Oldfield came to appoint him as his sole executor is beyond my comprehension.
human
What can you expect from a pill-man? I should take anything as a matter of course from the proprietor of Peter Piper's Popular Pills.
gpt
They're a sound, wholesome medicine.
human
Of course; we won't flog a dead donkey. And when did Oldfield die? and what of? did you know that he was ill?
gpt
I hadn't the ghost of a notion. And the best--or rather the worst--of it is that Messrs. Nash and Morgan seem to take it for granted that I knew all about it; especially the man Morgan.
human
Why should he do that? And what's the harm if he does?