human
I do so want to speak to you alone, she said.
gpt
I want to thank----
human
My dear young lady, no one has been doing anything else since I entered the house. Do give me a breathing space.
gpt
I understand; but this is something special; something else, I mean.
human
Oh! Shall I guess?
gpt
I don't mind your guessing,
human
Something to do with----
gpt
You did tell some taradiddles though. Hans didn't really do anything. I saw it all.
human
If he had not rushed up to me just when I called him, my dear young lady, none of us would have got out of the scrape as easily as we did, I said seriously. It would never do for her to think small beer of her lover.
gpt
It was that and the way he went for the brutes that decided everything and sent them scuttling off.
human
But he didn't do anything, Herr Lassen!
gpt
Do you mean to tell me you didn't see him knock that dark brute, the biggest of them I mean, head foremost into the gutter?
human
Did he really?
gpt
If you didn't see that, you can't have seen everything as you said.
human
But he told me he hadn't a chance to do a thing.
gpt
Bravo, Hans! I exclaimed.
human
Just like him. You wouldn't expect him to spread himself and swagger about his own pluck, would you?
gpt
He declared it was all your own doing, and after the way you fought before, I----
human
Come along, let's go to your mother, I broke in, and linking my arm in hers I moved toward the drawing-room door.
gpt
Hans is one of the best; if he weren't, he wouldn't be so ready to give me the credit for what he himself did. But we can't have that, you know.
human
What you said about him has done wonders with mother; changed her right round; and we're going together to the von Reblings. Oh, I _do_ thank you so!