human
While I think of it, he said,
gpt
Your dinner party was a great success.
human
Was it? he murmured, a little doubtfully.
gpt
I am not quite so sure. I can't seem to get at Tallente, somehow.
human
He is doing his work well, isn't he?
gpt
The mechanical side of it is most satisfactory, Dartrey confessed.
human
He is the most perfect Parliamentary machine that was ever evolved.
gpt
Surely that is exactly what you want? You were always complaining that there was no one to bring the stragglers into line.
human
For the present, Dartrey admitted,
gpt
Tallente is doing excellently. I wish, though, that I could see a little farther into the future.
human
Tell me exactly what fault you find with him?
gpt
He lacks enthusiasm already. He makes none of the mistakes which are coincident with genius and he is a little intolerant. He takes no trouble to adapt himself to varying views, he has a fine, broad outlook, but no man can see into every corner of the earth, and what is outside his outlook does not exist.
human
Anything else?
gpt
He is not happy in his work. There is something wanting in his scheme of life. I have built a ladder for him to climb. I have given him the chance of becoming the greatest statesman of to-day. One would think that he had some other ambition.
human
I can help you to understand Andrew Tallente, she declared.
gpt
His condition is the greatest of all tributes to my sex. He has had an unhappy married life. From forty to fifty he has borne it philosophically as a man may. Now the reaction has come. With the first dim approach of age, he becomes suddenly terrified for the things he is missing.
human
I dare say you are right, he admitted,