human
Oh, I wish you would talk, if you don't mind! she answered--and he noted as he had at first how warmly pleasant were the tones of her voice, which was a bit deeper than one would have expected.
gpt
I've heard nobody talk for days--except to say they didn't care to buy my book.
human
Your book? Have you written a book?
gpt
I'm selling one. This astonished him, but he did not let it show. It was certainly enough to make any girl ill to have to go about selling books. He wondered how it happened. She opened her handbag and took out the small book.
human
I don't want to sell you one, she said.
gpt
You wouldn't have any use for it. It's a little set of stories for children.
human
But I do want to buy one, he protested.
gpt
I've a lot of nieces and nephews always coming at me for stories.
human
You can't buy one. I'd like to give you one if you would take it, to show you how I appreciate this beautiful drive.
gpt
Of course I'll take it, he said quickly,
human
He slipped the book into his pocket.
gpt
As for the drive, it's much jollier not to be covering the ground alone. I wish, though--
human
You're sorry to be taking me to the hospital? she suggested.
gpt
You needn't be. I didn't want to go, just at first, but then--I felt I could trust the Doctor. He was so kind, and his hair was so like mine, he seemed like a sort of big older brother.
human
Red Pepper Burns seems like that to a lot of people, including myself. I don't look like much of a candidate for illness, but I've had an accident or two, and he's pulled me through in great shape. You're right in trusting him and you can keep right on, to the last ditch-- He stopped short again, with an inward thrust at himself for being so blundering in his suggestions to this girl, who, for all he knew, might be on her way to that
gpt
What did you call the Doctor?
human
What did I--oh! 'Red Pepper.' Yes--I've no business to call him that, of course, and I don't to his face, though his friends who are a bit older than I usually do, and people speak of him that way. It's his hair, of course--and--well, he has rather a quick temper. People with that coloured hair--But you're wrong in saying yours is like his,
gpt
So he has a quick temper, she mused.
human
I'm glad of that--I have one myself. It goes with the hair surely enough.
gpt
It goes with some other things, ventured Jordan King, determined, if he made any more mistakes, to make them on the side of encouragement.
human
Pluck, and endurance, and keeping jolly when you don't feel so--if you don't mind my saying it.
gpt
One has to have a few of those things to start out into the world with,
human
One certainly does. Doctor Burns understands that as well as any man I know. And he likes to find those things in other people.