human
Now, I tell you, he went on.
gpt
We'll just make a break in and then a quick get-away. Don't let's get anchored in there, see? If the old fellow gets talking, he'll go on for ever. I remember the way it used to be when a fellow had to go in to see Prexy in my time. The old guy would start mooning away and quoting Latin and keep us there half the morning.
human
I wonder who those guys are, said Mr. Sims.
gpt
Look like bums, don't they?
human
When the President asks us to lunch, he said,
gpt
I'll say that we're lunching with a friend down town, see? Then we'll make a break and get out. If he says he wants to introduce us to the Faculty or anything like that, then you say that we have to get the twelve-thirty to New York, see? I'm not going to say anything about a chair in philosophy to-day. I want to read it up first some night so as to be able to talk about it.
human
In the Administration Building, eh? said Mr. Sims.
gpt
That's a new one on me. The building on the right, eh? Thank you.
human
See the President? said a young lady in an ante-office.
gpt
I'm not sure whether you can see him just now. Have you an appointment?
human
Give him that he said. On the card he had scribbled
gpt
Graduate of 1887.
human
Will you kindly sit down, murmured the young man, in a consulting-room voice,