human
What is it, Boy?
gpt
There's somebody downstairs. Wake Berry.
human
What, he said,
gpt
Don't be a fool, I whispered.
human
The house is being burgled.
gpt
Gurgled?
human
Burgled, you fool.
gpt
No such word, said Berry.
human
What you mean is 'burglariously rifled.' And then you're wrong. Why, there's Nobby.
gpt
Don't lie there, she said.
human
Get up and see.
gpt
What?
human
What's going on.
gpt
How many are there?
human
You poisonous idiot, I hissed,
gpt
I tell you----
human
Naughty temper, said Berry.
gpt
I admit I'm in the wrong but there you are. You see, it all comes of not wearing rings. If I did, I should have remembered that a wire came from Jonah just before dinner--it's in my dinner-jacket--saying he was coming up late to-night with Harry, and that if the latter couldn't get in at the Club, he should bring him on here. He had the decency to add 'Don't sit up.'
human
And where, said my sister,
gpt
That, he said drowsily,
human
Outrageous, said Daphne. Then she turned to me.
gpt
It's too late to do anything now. Will you go down and explain? Perhaps he can manage in the library. Unless Jonah likes to give up his bed.
human
I'll do what I can,
gpt
Oh, and do ask if it's true about Evelyn.
human
Right oh. I'll tell you as I come back.
gpt
I forbid you, murmured her husband,