human
We'd both had enough of it, he confessed.
gpt
That young man thought fit to play a practical joke on Miss Merryon, so I've been taking his moral education in hand, appealing to his self-interest.
human
Well?
gpt
I remember getting held up at Bâle some years ago, he explained.
human
I was on my way home from Italy and I missed the eleven o'clock connection to Paris. There were crowds of us there--some on our way back from Italy, like me, some from the winter sports in Switzerland--all ages and races, on every kind of business or pleasure. The next train to Paris left the following day, and we had to reconcile ourselves to an uncomfortable night. Well, I've tried so many varieties of discomfort that I'm hardened and philosophical; I imagine most people would call these quarters uncomfortable, but they're nothing like what they were before Sonia took them in hand last summer.