human
It was good of you to neglect your work for us,
gpt
It was the dynamite that called me off. Doesn't your brother know that it is illegal to shoot a trout stream?
human
He ought to know that it is caddish and unsportsmanlike. I didn't know what he and Rickert were doing or I should have stopped them.
gpt
In that event we shouldn't have met, and you would have missed your chance of seeing the Niqoyastcàdje and the site of the city that isn't to be--the city of numbered days, he jested, adding, less lightly:
human
You wouldn't have missed very much.
gpt
No? she countered with a bright return of the alluring smile which he had first seen through the filmy gauze of the automobile veil.
human
Do you want me to say that I should have missed a great deal? You may consider it said if you wish.