human
Oh, say--go to it!
gpt
I beg your pardon.
human
Have it out; hand it to me--mop me up.
gpt
Well, aren't you going to?
human
I don't know that there is anything for me to say,
gpt
Yes, there is; you're full of it, insisted Bill.
human
I can tell by the way you're acting. I'll stand for it. Go on.
gpt
I'm not sure that I care to, Mr. Marshall.
human
Anyhow, I'm sorry,
gpt
Mighty sorry, Miss Norcross. I wouldn't have put you in that position for anything. I--I apologize.
human
Oh, be reasonable about it, he said in a begging tone.
gpt
Bawl me out and let's have it over with. That's the way Aunt Caroline and I do it.
human
I am not your Aunt Caroline, Mr. Marshall.
gpt
I know. But you're thinking just what she would think, so it amounts to the same thing. Please bawl me out.
human
I don't know that it is one of my duties to do so, observed Mary.
gpt
I think perhaps we had better not discuss it at all.
human
Well, I apologized, he reminded her.
gpt
You might at least say whether you accept it or reject it or what.
human
Why, I accept it, she said.
gpt
What else is there to do?
human
You might have left off the last part, he grumbled.
gpt
You don't have to accept it unless you want to. I'd sooner you didn't.
human
But I already have.
gpt
Well, you needn't.
human
It's done, if you please.
gpt
If you're going to act that way I'll withdraw the apology,
human
It is already accepted, so it is too late to withdraw anything, Mr. Marshall.
gpt
Oh, all right, he agreed lamely.
human
Have it any way you like. I--I suppose Aunt Caroline will raise the devil, so I'll get it good from somebody, anyhow.
gpt
You will tell her about it, then?
human
Who? Me? Do I act crazy?
gpt
Then you will leave it to your valet, perhaps,
human
Pete? He doesn't dare. I'd slaughter him.
gpt
Then how is your aunt going to know, Mr. Marshall?
human
Why--why, you'll tell her!
gpt
Once again, Mr. Marshall, I ask you, whose secretary am I?
human
Miss Norcross! You mean----
gpt
I mean that I do not peddle gossip,
human
You're an ace, he said joyously.
gpt
I thought, of course----
human
I do not think you had any business to believe I would tell, said Mary.
gpt
If I have given you any cause to think so I'm not aware of it.
human
You're a whole fist full of aces!
gpt
I think I have been quite frank with you, Mr. Marshall, ever since I entered your employ. And that is more than you have been with me.
human
Huh? How's that?
gpt
Have you forgotten what you told me this afternoon? You--you said you were going to a very private affair--very exclusive, you said.
human
So it was, until the police butted in.
gpt
I assumed, of course, it was social,
human
But I didn't say it was. Now, did I?
gpt
You allowed me to infer it. And that is the worst way of deceiving people.
human
Oh, well, I'll make an apology on that, too. But if I'd told you the truth you'd have tried to stop me. You'd have roasted me, anyhow.
gpt
I should have tried to persuade you not to go,
human
Sure. I knew it.