human
Mrs. Kennaird, is that you? Well, I’m Benson—you remember me?
gpt
Benny.
human
Oh, she exclaimed, recovering herself, though her heart still drummed the echoes of a panic,
gpt
I’ve been taken for many things in my life, he said,
human
They tell me the peasants have seen a great bird in the sky. Everyone up at Vermala is looking for it. Of course they will not find it. I am not a least bit superstitious, but I must say that the idea of a great bird pleases me—even if it’s untrue.
gpt
Then you are quite sure it is untrue, Mrs. Kennaird?
human
Now, could it be anything else? You are not serious.
gpt
It would be a splendid thing to fly over the mountains, wouldn’t it? If I have a spirit, I would sooner it played about here than in an old vault, as most of them do. Why, how it suggests power—power above men, doesn’t it?
human
But I suppose you think all this is just nonsense? I’m not the kind of man who ought to be ambitious, am I? Everyone tells me that.
gpt
But you do not lose your ambition because of them?
human
Yes, he said, with real earnestness,
gpt
I am ambitious, and some day I shall attain my goal.