human
Why, you yourself, she cried,
gpt
Gone? He turned and looked at her in the twilight. Really, Aunt Mary was sometimes very silly.
human
Of course, he's gone! As a matter of fact he left London ten days before his chief. And then he added reflectively, perhaps with more a wish to tease her than anything else,
gpt
I've rather wondered this last week whether Von Lissing's friendship with me was regarded by him as a business matter. He sometimes asked me such odd questions. Of course one has always known that Germans are singularly inquisitive--that they are always wanting to find out things. I confess it never struck me at the time that his questions meant anything more than that sort of insatiable wish _to know_ that all Germans have.
human
What sort of things did he ask you, James?
gpt
Well, I'll tell you one thing he said, and it astonished me very much indeed. He asked me what attitude I thought our colonies would take if we became embroiled in a European war! I reminded him of what they'd done in South Africa fourteen years ago, and he said he thought the world had altered a good deal since then, and that people had become more selfish. But he never asked me any question concerning my own special department. In those ways he quite played the game--not that it would have been of any use, because of course I shouldn't have told him anything. But he was certainly oddly inquiring about other departments.