human
I wonder whether you would mind coming into my study? he suggested.
gpt
I am here quite alone for the present, and it is the only room I use.
human
You are like me, she said.
gpt
I keep most of my rooms shut up and live in my den. A lonely person needs so much atmosphere.
human
Rather a pigsty, isn't it? he remarked, sweeping a heap of books from a chair.
gpt
I am without a secretary just now--in fact, he went on, with a little burst of confidence engendered by her friendly attitude,
human
It is a most characteristic mess, she declared.
gpt
I am sure an interviewer would give anything for this glimpse into your tastes and habits. Golf clubs, all cleaned up and ready for action; trout rod, newly-waxed at the joints--you must try my stream, there is no water in yours; tennis racquets in a very excellent press--I wonder whether you're too good for a single with me some day? Typewriter--rather dusty. I don't believe that you can use it.
human
I can't, he admitted.
gpt
I have been writing my letters by hand for the last two days.
human
Men are helpless creatures! Fancy a great politician unable to write his own letters! What has become of your secretary?
gpt
I shall begin to think, he said, a little querulously,
human
Really? she exclaimed.
gpt
He or she?
human
He--the Honourable Anthony Palliser by name, son of Stobart Palliser, who was at Eton with me.
gpt
I expect I know his mother. What exactly do you mean by 'disappeared'?
human
The young man and I differed last Tuesday night, he said.
gpt
In the language of the novelists, he walked out into the night and disappeared. Only an hour before dinner, too. Nothing has been heard of him since.
human
What a fatuous thing to do! she remarked.
gpt
Shall you have to get another secretary?
human
Presently, he assented.
gpt
Just for the moment I am rather enjoying doing nothing.