human
Now, Gregory, Fielding said,
gpt
Well, that is a rum start, his companion said when he had finished his story.
human
And you really think that you will some day come in for all this money?
gpt
I do, Robert answered.
human
As I have told you they are trying down there now, and have a good chance; but if that fails, I mean to try for it myself. And now what have you been doing?
gpt
The easiest way to answer would be to tell you what I have not been doing. You left us in the winter, and I held on, as I had been doing before, till the next Derby Day; but I dropped so much upon that, that I had to make myself scarce for a bit. Then I came back again, and set to work to earn my living, and very hard work I found it.
human
I should think so, Robert Gregory put in.
gpt
I have been trying to get something to do for the last three months, and I am no nearer, as far as I can see, than when I began. How did you set about it?