human
He does not know where it is,
gpt
Engineers know everything,
human
If this one knew anything, he would not have stood there looking at the stones. I do not suppose the municipality is going to put up a monument to my grandfather, whom may the Lord preserve in glory!
gpt
A woman,
human
A woman drowned him? asked Gigi.
gpt
How could a woman do it?
human
A man did it. But it was for jealousy of a woman.
gpt
The man was a mason, I suppose,
human
Of course. He was working with the others in the morning, and he knew where they would be after dinner. He did not come back with them, and half an hour after they had gone down the water came. How many times have I told you that?
gpt
It is always a new tale, answered Gigi.
human
It gives me pleasure to hear it. Your father was a young man then, was he not?
gpt
Eighteen.
human
And the man who did it died soon afterwards?
gpt
Of course, said Toto.
human
What else could my father do? He killed him. It was the least he could have done. My father is also in Paradise.
gpt
Requiescat!
human
Amen, answered Toto.
gpt
He killed him with a mattock.
human
It was well done, observed Gigi with satisfaction.
gpt
I suppose, he continued after a pause,
human
Why should I? I do not care what they do. If they send for me, I may serve them. If they think they can do without me, let them try. I do not care a cabbage!
gpt
Perhaps not, Gigi answered thoughtfully.
human
But it must be a fine satisfaction to know that you can drown them all, like rats in a hole.
gpt
Yes, said Toto,
human
And even to know that you can make the water come before they begin, so that they can never do anything without you.
gpt
That too,
human
They would pay you a great deal to help them, if they could not pump the water out. There is no one else in Rome who knows how to turn it off.
gpt
You will need some one to help you,
human
I can do it alone.
gpt
It is somewhere in the cellars of number thirteen, is it not?