human
I've never heard him speak in such a way of any one in my life before, she declared;
gpt
I did not know that,
human
He loves to talk of the country and the people, and, as you have just come from there, I am sure he is bitterly disappointed because you can't tell him about the things you saw and the people you met and all the rest of it.
gpt
It would have been very interesting to me too,
human
You don't know how long you were there, I suppose?
gpt
It must be a dreadful thing to lose one's memory,
human
It makes everything very difficult,
gpt
And yet you can remember everything that's happened since, can't you?
human
Perfectly. As perfectly as if I had never had that shock.
gpt
It _is_ odd.
human
My husband thinks you must have been a very long time in England,
gpt
That's very interesting. Why does he?
human
I don't know exactly. Of course it can only be a guess. But he declares you are much more like an Englishman than one of us. I fancy it's your reserved manner; the way he said you pronounced English to him; and then your knowing something of the English words of command. In fact he took you for an Englishman at first; and he questioned me ever so closely, almost cross-examined me indeed, as I told him, about your fighting yesterday, the way you used your fists, and so on. I was quite amused.
gpt
It's a thousand pities I can't tell him anything.
human
There was one thing he insisted upon worrying us both about. You remember, Nita?
gpt
Do you mean the kicking, mother? The latter nodded and Nita continued.
human
I thought it awfully funny, Herr Lassen, to tell the truth; at least I should have done if it had been any one else; but father always has a strong motive in such things. If he asked me one question he must have asked fifty, I'm sure, taking me right over every incident of yesterday, to find out whether in beating off those awful men you had ever once used your feet. I told him I was sure you hadn't; and he seemed to think it was a most extraordinary thing for a German to have used only his fists. Don't you think it silly?
gpt
I don't know quite what to think of it,
human
For shame, Nita, your father is never silly,