human
Potter, said the old gentleman,
gpt
I've been thinking about the cocktails, he said.
human
I'm afraid I sha'n't have time for them. And I used to know bartenders by their first names.
gpt
Do you ever feel a hankering?
human
I never did when I had anything else to do.
gpt
Um!... Have you anything else to do now?
human
Aeroplanes,
gpt
Your father said something about that, said the doctor.
human
What's it all about?
gpt
While I've been down and out, Potter said, slowly,
human
I've discovered that I've been a man without a country. I've found my country. I've thought _hard_ and I believe my country is going to need me.... It can have me. If we get into this war, Doctor, we're going to need twenty thousand aeroplanes--quick. I've a knack that way. By the time this country needs the 'planes I'm going to know more about building them than anybody else this side the water--I'm going to be on the spot--ready.... That's all there is to it. Dad thinks it's a fad like stamp-collecting, and that I'm a crank.
gpt
If it is, said the fat old practitioner, blinking his eyes,
human
I wish a hundred millions of us could get bumped on the head and have a similar fad jarred into us. You go to it, son. Stay by it. Don't let them whisper and ridicule you out of it. Do you know that the greatest automobile manufacturer in the world was once called Crazy Henry by his friends? You don't hear anybody calling him Crazy Henry now, do you?... And remember this: There'll always be some to believe in you, and their belief will be worth more to you than the ridicule of all the rest. There'll be a girl.... And there'll be a fat old man. Shake, son. They shook hands gravely.
gpt
Now get well--and show 'em.
human
There'll always be some to believe in you.... There'll be a girl.