human
It's all right then, I take it, Tom?
gpt
Didn't have any trouble at all in interesting the general, replied the messenger joyfully.
human
He said he'd see to having an urgent call go out to hurry the notifications along, and almost promised they'd get here by two this afternoon.
gpt
And how about the plane business?
human
That's all settled in the bargain. I have written permission to make use of our plane, turning it over to a certain agent in Dunkirk after we've arrived there. The general will send a message over to us which we're to deliver at the same time we give up the machine.
gpt
Great work, Tom! I've always said you'd make a mighty fine diplomatic agent, if ever you tried, and now I know it.
human
No soft-soap business, please. If it had been anybody but the general I'd have surely fallen down on my job. But you know he's always had an interest in us, Jack.
gpt
Do you think he suspected anything?
human
Sure he did, but not _the_ thing, for nobody in the wide world would ever dream we were planning such an unheard of thing as a non-stop flight across the Atlantic.