human
I don't wish to presume upon your courtesy, he said,
gpt
So far as you are concerned.
human
Oh, another appointment! Of course, this 'summer time' stunt gives you another hour, doesn't it? Well, I must wish you a warmer welcome.
gpt
That were impossible, was the bland reply
human
Once or twice, I must confess, I thought you a little--er, equivocal, but let that pass. I only regret that Mrs. Pleydell, particularly, should have been so much inconvenienced.
gpt
Don't mention it, said Berry.
human
As a matter of fact, we're all very pleased to have met you. You have interested us more than I can say, with true chivalry you have abstained from murder and mutilation, and you have suffered me to blow my nose, when a less courteous visitor would have obliged me to sniff with desperate and painful regularity for nearly half an hour. Can generosity go further?
gpt
You're a good loser, he crowed.
human
I'll give you that. I'm quite glad you came down. Most of my hosts I never see, and that's dull, you know, dull. And those I do are so often--er--unsympathetic. Yes, I shall remember to-night.
gpt
Going to change his rings,
human
And now the highly delicate question of our departure is, I am afraid, imminent. To avoid exciting impertinent curiosity, you will appreciate that we must take our leave as artlessly as possible, and that the order of our going must be characterized by no unusual circumstance, such, for instance, as a hue and cry. Anything so vulgar as a scene must at all costs be obviated. Excuse me. Blake!