human
It is hopeless for you to struggle against our knowledge and our resources, quite hopeless. We have, for example, the _fullest_ information about you and your life down to the smallest detail.
gpt
Yes? answered Coquenil, and a twinkle of humor shone in his eyes.
human
What's the name of my old servant?
gpt
Melanie.
human
What's the name of the canary bird I gave her last week?
gpt
It isn't a canary bird, it's a bullfinch. And its name is Pete.
human
Not bad, not at all bad,
gpt
We know the important things, too, all that concerns you, from your _forced resignation_ two years ago down to your talk yesterday with the girl at Notre-Dame. So how can you fight us? How can you shadow people who shadow you? Who watch your actions from day to day, from hour to hour? Who know _exactly_ the moment when you are weak and unprepared, as I know now that you are unarmed _because you left that pistol with Papa Tignol_.
human
Here's your money,
gpt
Then you refuse?
human
I refuse.
gpt
Stubborn fellow! And unbelieving! You doubt our power against you. Come, I will give you a glimpse of it, just the briefest glimpse. Suppose you try to arrest me. You have been thinking of it, _now act_. I'm a suspicious character, I ought to be investigated. Well, do your duty. I might point out that such an arrest would accomplish absolutely nothing, for you haven't the slightest evidence against me and can get none, but I waive that point because I want to show you that, even in so simple an effort against us as this, _you would inevitably fail_.
human
You mean that I _cannot_ arrest you?
gpt
Precisely. I mean that with all your cleverness and with a distinct advantage in position, here on the Champs Elysées with policemen all about us, _you cannot arrest me_.
human
We'll see about that,
gpt
I say this in no spirit of bravado, continued the other with irritating insolence,
human
Then, with a final fling of defiance:
gpt
This is the first time you have seen me, M. Coquenil, and you will probably never see me again, but you will hear from me. _Now blow your whistle!_