human
You know what you need, Mr. Queed? Friends--lots of good friends--
gpt
I assure you--
human
Yes--you--DO! said Fifi, with surprising emphasis for so weak a little voice.
gpt
You need first a good girl friend, one lots older and better than me--one just like Sharlee. O if only you and she _would_ be friends!--she'd be the very best in the world! And then you need men friends, plenty of them, and to go around with them, and everything. You ought to like _men_ more, Mr. Queed! You ought to learn to _be_ like them, and--
human
Be like them! he interrupted,
gpt
I am like them. Why, he conceded generously,
human
I am one of them.
gpt
Has it occurred to you that, apart from my greater concentration on my work, I am different from other men?
human
Why, Mr. Queed, you are no more like them than I am! You don't do any of the things they do. You don't--
gpt
Such as what? Now, Fifi, let us be definite as we go along. Suppose that it was my ambition to be, as you say, like other men. Just what things, in your opinion, should I do?
human
Well, smoke--that's one thing that all men do. And fool around more with people--laugh and joke, and tell funny stories and all. And then you could take an interest in your appearance--your clothes, you know; and be interested in all sorts of things going on around you, like politics and baseball. And go to see girls and take them out sometimes, like to the theatre. Some men that are popular drink, but of course I don't care for that.