human
You drive a lot, don't you?
gpt
A good deal.
human
Then I expect you hate being driven by a stranger?
gpt
Not at all. Sometimes, of course---- I waited for us to emerge from between two motor-lorries and a traction-engine. As we were doing over forty-five, the pause was but momentary.
human
I mean----
gpt
That you're being frightened to death?
human
Not to death. I've still got some feeling in my right arm. We dropped down one of the steepest hills I have ever seen, with two bends in it, at an increased speed.
gpt
You keep your guardian angel pretty busy, don't you?
human
The only thing I'm really frightened of is a hansom cab,
gpt
Try and imagine that there are half a dozen round the next corner, will you?
human
Is your heart all right?
gpt
It was when we started.
human
But I know this road backwards.
gpt
You needn't tell me that, said I.
human
We should have been killed long ago if you didn't. Seriously, I don't want to abuse your hospitality, but we're going to have kidneys for breakfast to-morrow, and I should be sorry to miss them.
gpt
Are you fond of kidneys?
human
Passionately. I used to go out and gather them as a child. In the morning and the meadows. Or were we talking of haddock?
gpt
I used to, too. But I was always afraid of their being toadstools. They're poisonous, aren't they?
human
Deadly. By the way, there are six hansoms full of toadstools at the cross-roads which I observe we are approaching.
gpt
I don't believe you.