human
Which will you have, Kent--a wash-up and breakfast, or a visitor?
gpt
I am not hungry, and I don't feel like soap and water just now. Who's the visitor? Father Layonne or--Kedsty?
human
Neither. It's a lady.
gpt
Then I'd better have the soap and water! Do you mind telling me who it is?
human
I don't know. I've never seen her before. She came this morning while I was still in pajamas, and has been waiting ever since. I told her to come back again, but she insisted that she would remain until you were awake. She has been very patient for two hours.
gpt
Is she a young woman? he demanded eagerly.
human
Wonderful black hair, blue eyes, wears high-heeled shoes just about half as big as your hand--and very beautiful?
gpt
All of that, nodded Cardigan.
human
I even noticed the shoes, Jimmy. A very beautiful young woman!
gpt
Please let her come in, said Kent.
human
Mercer scrubbed me last night, and I feel fairly fit. She'll forgive this beard, and I'll apologize for your sake. What is her name?
gpt
I asked her, and she didn't seem to hear. A little later Mercer asked her, and he said she just looked at him for a moment and he froze. She is reading a volume of my Plutarch's 'Lives'--actually reading it. I know it by the way she turns the pages!