human
I can't bear cynicism,
gpt
Cynics--real cynics--never can.
human
But I am not a cynic.
gpt
Are you sure of that?
human
Yes, quite sure.
gpt
And yet you tell me that you never take the trouble to flatter the inferior male. That's conflicting evidence, you know. Are you a man-hater, by the way?
human
I'm not prepared to answer that question off-hand.
gpt
Very prudent of you! he commented.
human
Do you know I owe you an apology?
gpt
I shouldn't have said so.
human
No? Well, let me confess. I'm rather good at confessing. I didn't believe you just now when you said you were twenty-five. Now I do. That single streak of prudence was proof absolute and convincing.
gpt
I usually tell the truth,
human
Yes, it takes a genius to lie properly. I am not so good at it myself as I should like to be. But a woman of twenty-five ought not to look like a princess of eighteen--a tired princess moreover, who ought to have been sent to bed long ago.
gpt
You certainly are not the sort of genius you aspire to be, she said,
human
But you will be a queen at thirty, he said.
gpt
Hullo! Here is someone coming! Don't speak, and p'r'aps they won't discover us. They can't stay long.