human
If you do, Joe, she said;
gpt
If I do, my dear, you don't think I shall be such a fool as to tell you who she is. Do you suppose that no woman has ever fallen in love with me before you? But then, my pretty, you see I don't talk about them; and do you suppose--oh, Lotty, are you such a fool as to suppose that you are the first girl I ever fell in love with?
human
What do you want me to do? Tell me again.
gpt
I have told you already. I want you to become, for the time, the daughter of the man who died in America; you will claim your inheritance; I will provide you with all the papers; I will stand by you; I will back you up with such a story as will disarm all suspicion. That is all.
human
Yes. I understand. Haven't people been sent to prison for less, Joe?
gpt
Foolish people have. Not people who are well advised and under good management. Mind you, this business is under my direction. I am boss.
human
Joe, she said,
gpt
More than one, Lotty, he replied, this man of resource, although he was only half awake.
human
More than one. A great many more. Half-a-dozen, I know, at least.
gpt
Joe, she said,
human
I've made up my mind. You sha'n't say that I refused to do for you what any other girl in the world would have done.
gpt
For Iris. To be given to her on her twenty-first birthday.
human
What the deuce is this, I wonder? Joe took this out and looked at it suspiciously.
gpt
Can he be going to give her all his money before he dies? Is he going to make her inherit it at once? The thought was so exasperating that he slipped the roll into his pocket.
human
At all events, he said,