human
We didn’t make much last week. We won something, of course. We win every week; that’s a mathematical certainty--but sometimes the expenses mount up a bit higher than the receipts. It depends on the word. If it’s an ordinary word that everybody chooses, naturally the share is a small one because there are so many winners.
gpt
Oh!
human
Well, it stands to reason they must take one week with another, and average it out.
gpt
Now, Albert! Now, Albert! Edwin warned him.
human
No gambling.
gpt
I don’t see that there’s any gambling in it. Appears to me that it’s chiefly skill and thoroughness that does the trick.
human
Gambling! murmured Tom Swetnam shortly.
gpt
Of course it’s not gambling.
human
No!
gpt
Well, said Vera Cheswardine,
human
I say ’novelty.’ ’A double event of unique novelty.’ That’s it.
gpt
I shouldn’t go nap on ’novelty,’ if I were you,
human
Novelty, Vera repeated.
gpt
I know it’s novelty. I’m always right, aren’t I, Stephen? She looked round.
human
Ask Stephen.
gpt
You were right last week but one, my child,
human
And did you make anything?
gpt
Only fifteen shillings, said Vera discontentedly.
human
But if Stephen had listened to me we should have made lots.
gpt
By the way, what is this week’s word, Tom? I haven’t your secret sources of information. I have to wait for the paper.
human
said Tom.
gpt
Had you anything on it?
human
No, Fearns admitted.
gpt
I’ve caught a cold this week, it seems.
human
Me, too!
gpt
Oh! You wicked sinner! You never told me you’d gone in! You deceitful old thing!
human
Well, it was a man at the shop who would have me try,