human
My dear, dear father! You are safe! I feared--You are better, sir? Thank God!
gpt
Safe? he said.
human
What has alarmed you?
gpt
Those doctors are such fools! Richard broke out.
human
I was sure they were wrong. They don't know headache from apoplexy. It's worth the ride, sir, to see you. You left Raynham so suddenly.--But you are well! It was not an attack of real apoplexy?
gpt
If you were ill, I couldn't come too soon, though, if coroners' inquests sat on horses, those doctors would be found guilty of mare-slaughter. Cassandra'll be knocked up. I was too early for the train at Bellingham, and I wouldn't wait. She did the distance in four hours and three- quarters. Pretty good, sir, wasn't it?
human
It has given you appetite for dinner, I hope,
gpt
I'm ready, replied Richard.
human
I shall be in time to return by the last train to-night. I will leave Cassandra in your charge for a rest.
gpt
All well at Raynham?
human
Quite, sir.
gpt
Nothing new?
human
Nothing, sir.
gpt
The same as when I left?
human
No change whatever!
gpt
I shall be glad to get back to the old place, said the baronet.
human
My stay in town has certainly been profitable. I have made some pleasant acquaintances who may probably favour us with a visit there in the late autumn--people you may be pleased to know. They are very anxious to see Raynham.
gpt
I love the old place, cried Richard.
human
I never wish to leave it.
gpt
Why, boy, before I left you were constantly begging to see town.
human
Was I, sir? How odd! Well! I don't want to remain here. I've seen enough of it.
gpt
How did you find your way to me?
human
There's no place like home!
gpt
To anchor the heart by any object ere we have half traversed the world, is youth's foolishness, my son. Reverence time! A better maxim that than your Horatian.
human
He knows all!
gpt
I shall just be in time, sir, if we walk. Will you come with me to the station?