human
Yes, I said, answering her,
gpt
I did notice a negligible trace of impatience about your father.
human
You see I did not inform my father that I had written to you. He doesn't like strangers; he doesn't like scientists. I did not dare tell him that I had asked you to come out here. It was entirely my own idea. I felt that I _must_ write you because I am positive that what is happening in this wilderness is of vital scientific importance.
gpt
How did you get a letter out of this distant and desolate place?
human
Every two months the storekeeper at Windflower Station sends in a man and a string of mules with staples for us. The man takes our further orders and our letters back to civilization.
gpt
He took my letter to you--among one or two others I sent----