human
I just adore English society, she said over the first mouthfuls of soup.
gpt
Our brightest talkers in America cannot be compared with the ordinary clubmen in London. And the dinners, how charming!
human
You find people amusing?
gpt
Yes, and the substantiality of it. Not only the viands and the drinks, but the really improving conversation--the--the _tout à fait_.
human
You think people have less _tout à fait_ in America?
gpt
There's none of it; and now I come to think of it, I mean _tout ensemble_. How quick of you to see what I meant! But that's just it. My heart--and I told Mr. Murchison so the first time I saw him--is English. My head may be American, but my heart is English. Those were my words, _ipse dixit_.
human
Very remarkable,
gpt
The air of dignity, continued Mrs. Murchison (soup always thawed her),
human
I am afraid you will find plenty of gimcrackiness if you go to the suburbs,
gpt
I haven't yet projected any trips to the suburbs,
human
Of course not. The proper definition of suburbs is the place to which one does not go. They are merely a negative geographical expression.
gpt
Well, I'm an Anglophobe, said Mrs. Murchison with conviction;
human
Tendency in what line?
gpt
By tendency I mean the direction in which they are advancing?
human
We are advancing towards America, he replied, after a moment's thought.
gpt
That is where our fiction goes, and that is whence our inventions come.
human
I guess that's deep, she said.
gpt
I shall cable that to Mr. Murchison.
human
The fictions are the inventions, you mean, she said.
gpt
The one goes to where the other comes from. The oneness of the two countries, in fact. The brightest thing I've heard this summer,