human
Please, Sir Kenneth, she said.
gpt
Just a moment. Don't say anything for a little bit.
human
It's as though you were almost invisible, she said.
gpt
I can see you with my eyes, of course, but mentally you are almost completely indetectable. Knowing you as well as I do, and being this close to you, it is just possible for me to detect very faint traces of activity.
human
Now, wait a minute, Malone said.
gpt
I am thinking. I know I am. Maybe it's not me. Your telepathy might be fading out temporarily, or something like that. It's possible, isn't it?
human
I can still receive Sir Thomas, for instance, quite clearly, she said. She seemed a little miffed, but the irritation was overpowered by her worry.
gpt
I think, Sir Kenneth, that you just don't know your own power, that's all. I don't know how, but you've managed somehow to smother telepathic communication almost completely.
human
But not quite?
gpt
It's like looking at a very dim light, she said,
human
She blinked.
gpt
It's not exactly like that, you understand, she finished.
human
But in some ways--
gpt
I get the idea, Malone said.
human
Or I think I do. But what's causing it? Sunspots? Little green men?
gpt
Not so little, Her Majesty said with some return of her old humor,
human
Me?
gpt
I don't know how, Sir Kenneth, Her Majesty went on,
human
You? Malone said.
gpt
How about me? It was like suddenly discovering that you'd been lifting two-hundred-pound barbells and not knowing it.
human
How could I be doing anything like that without knowing anything about it?
gpt
I haven't the faintest idea,