human
What do you think you see?
gpt
Why, I'm all mixed up about it, came the slow reply.
human
It certainly isn't a steamer, and again it just can't be land!
gpt
Well, hardly, Beverly answered.
human
To tell the honest truth I don't believe there's a foot of land closer to us than the Bermudas, which must lie off in that direction,
gpt
When the sun glints on it I'm fairly dazzled, Jack continued,
human
I think I can give a guess, Tom called back.
gpt
How would an iceberg fill the bill, Colin?
human
Just the thing, I'd say, the lieutenant answered,
gpt
But not impossible?
human
Take a look, and tell us, Colin,
gpt
Just what it is, Tom, after all, reported Beverly.
human
A pretty tall berg it seems to be, with an extensive ice-floe around it as level in spots as a floor. I thought I saw something move on it that might be a Polar bear, caught when the berg broke away from its Arctic glacier. We will pass directly over, and may be able to feel the chill.
gpt
It was the _Titanic_, wasn't it, that bumped into an iceberg, and went down with such a frightful loss of life?
human
No other, replied Tom.
gpt
But we'll try to make sure nothing like that happens to our frail craft. Try to guess what would happen to that monster berg if we hit head on?
human
Hardly a crack! Jack retorted.
gpt
But I'm more interested in wondering what would become of us. Guess we'd better keep a good thousand feet up, and not bother trying to pry into the ice-floe's secrets.
human
I'm not dreaming of dropping a foot lower just at present,