human
Hello, popper-in-law, he cried.
gpt
Any room left on the veranda?
human
Come in, Thomas, piped the older man.
gpt
The girls are doing the dishes, Bedelia and Laura, and we'll just sit out two or three dances.
human
Doing pretty well, Doctor, put in the younger man.
gpt
Only broke over once in eighteen months--that's the record for Henry. Shows what a woman can do for a man.
human
Tom--I'm a generation older than you--nearly. I want to tell you something-- He smiled.
gpt
Boy--you've got the devil's own fight ahead of you--did you know it--I mean, he paused,
human
Tom, the elder man chirped,
gpt
He let his voice run whimsically into its mocking falsetto,
human
I almost catch myself getting fooled too.
gpt
Boy, the thing's in your blood. Did you realize that you've got just as hard a fight as poor Henry Fenn? It's all right now--for a while; but the time will come--we might just as well look this thing squarely in the face now, Tom--the time will come in a few years when the devil will build the same kind of a fire under you he is building under Henry Fenn--only it won't be whisky; it will be the woman proposition. Damn it, boy, cried the elder man squeakily,
human
I know what I am, oh, I know it. But for her--you and I together--you'll help and we'll stand together and fight it out for her.