human
Tell him, said Dordess,
gpt
You are ungenerous! cried Corinna.
human
After he has saved us all!
gpt
I can't tell you how sorry we are. He has put us in a difficult position. But there is no help for it.
human
Suppose you address me directly instead of through Miss Playfair, said Evan, careful to keep his voice as smooth as the other man's.
gpt
Don't let the trifling service that I am supposed to have done you trouble you, but tell me what's the nature of your objection to me.
human
I think you know that, said Dordess.
gpt
You have been pleased to refer to us jokingly as the 'brotherhood.' All right, we accept that word. We are a brotherhood working under a certain understood rule. Well, you've had your chance, and you refuse to be governed by our rule. You insist on playing your own hand. That's all right. But if every one of us was working for himself it would make these trips impossible. Surely you can see that.
human
And if I refuse to tell him what you ask me to?
gpt
Then the rest of us will go, said Dordess instantly.
human
Our minds are made up as to that.
gpt
A strike of the brotherhood!
human
Let them go! he cried.
gpt
I'll undertake to fill their places before the next trip.
human
I am sorry to appear ungenerous and ungrateful, she said like a child repeating a lesson,
gpt
Corinna!