human
Yes, I’m glad,
gpt
Oh! You’re glad, are you?
human
Well, I’m glad in a way. A boy does have to go to school, doesn’t he, uncle? And the sooner it’s over the better. I tell you what I should like--I should like to go to school night and day and have no holidays till it was all done. I sh’d think you could save at least three years with that.
gpt
A bit hard on the masters, wouldn’t it be?
human
I never thought of that. Of course it would never be over for them. I expect they’d gradually die.
gpt
Then you don’t like school?
human
Did you like school, uncle?
gpt
Uncle, can I leave school when I’m sixteen?
human
I’ve told you once.
gpt
Yes, I know. But did you mean it? People change so.
human
I told you you could leave school when you’re sixteen if you pass the London Matric.
gpt
But what good’s the London Matric to an architect? Mr. Orgreave says it isn’t any good, anyway.
human
When did he tell you that?
gpt
Yesterday.
human
But not so long since you were all for being a stock-breeder!
gpt
Ah! I was only pretending to myself!
human
Well, fetch me my cigarettes off the mantelpiece in the drawing-room.