human
What are you doing here?
gpt
I am trying to help, O Master.
human
But I gave orders for all the old folks, children and women to take refuge up there back of the cliffs.
gpt
Forgive me, O Master! I saw the fighting on the plain, and I could not stay up there in safety. I had to come down to do my share.
human
Your share?
gpt
Yes. Veena touched meaningly the bow and quiver of arrows, that hung over her shoulder.
human
I can send an arrow straight as any man in the tribe.
gpt
But women are not supposed to go into battle.
human
Why not? If the enemy feels an arrow in his body, does he stop to ask whether a man shot it or a woman?
gpt
Well, I'll be jiggered! cried Dan Carter, who had caught the drift of this reply.
human
Talk about your modern girl! Why this Stone-Age maiden belongs to the Twentieth Century!
gpt
Stone-Age or
human
Twentieth Century
gpt
Please let me stay, O Master,
human
Nothing doing! Go back up the cliff. And get a move on! You're supposed to be with Queen Vanga. This is no place for girls!