human
It's all right, Tom--I understand things.
gpt
Shall we sit down, Tom, and take stock of things and see where we stand? Wouldn't that be a good idea?
human
I believe I understand you, Tom--better than any one else in the world understands you. I believe you have not a better friend on earth than I right at this minute.
gpt
I am sure that's the God's truth, Doctor Jim. Then after a sigh he added,
human
And this is what I've done to you!
gpt
And will keep right on doing to me as long as you live,
human
As long as I live, I fancy, repeated the other. In the pause the young man put his hands to his hips and his chin on his breast as he slouched down in the chair and asked:
gpt
Where's Laura?
human
Over at her mother's, replied the father.
gpt
Nobody will interrupt us--and so I thought we could get down to grass roots and talk this thing out.
human
I suppose that idea is as good as any. He put one long, lean, hairy hand on the short, fat knee beside him and said:
gpt
The whole trouble with our Protestant religion is that we have no confessor. So some of us talk to our lawyers, and some of us talk to our doctors, and in extreme unction we talk to our newspapers.
human
But we all talk to some one, and now I'm going to talk to you--talk for once, Doctor, right out of my soul--if I have one.