human
Where am I to drive?
gpt
Hans knows the way,
human
Come along then, Hans,
gpt
Rather a nice little child,
human
Child! She's only a year younger than I am,
gpt
So that's how the wind blows, eh?
human
I wish to Heaven I'd come up sooner; but I say, you did make a fight of it, cousin. Nita's been telling me all about it. She says they'd have been torn to pieces if it hadn't been for you. You're a lucky beggar!
gpt
I don't take too kindly to that sort of luck, Hans, I can tell you.
human
I only wish it had been mine,
gpt
You did all right as it was when you came; and of course she saw you. Rather a pretty name--Nita.
human
But her mother didn't; if she had it might change her opinion and---- He didn't finish the sentence and exclaimed:
gpt
But I say, you do know how to handle a car!
human
The mother's against it all, eh?
gpt
Only for the silly reason that we're too young. And I shall be an officer in a month or two; but the Baroness is like Rosa in that, she can't understand when a fellow's grown up.
human
It'll come all right when you've been in the army a year or two,
gpt
A year or two,
human
Well, if she won't wait for you as long as that, she isn't worth bothering about, Hans.
gpt
But she will; she's said so a hundred times. There's no doubt about her; but there's something else; somebody else, rather.
human
And which are you? Number one or number two?
gpt
Oh, I don't mean with her; but old Gratz has some one else.
human
And what's he got to do with it?
gpt
Johann! Seeing that he's her father, he's got everything to do with it, of course.
human
Do you mean that this old lady is Baron von Gratzen's wife?
gpt
Of course she is. I thought you knew it.