human
You've made me feel awfully strange about that fellow, I said to Rosa as we started from the house.
gpt
I suppose it means I'm angry. I feel I should like to kick the brute.
human
I'm glad to hear it; but kicking won't be enough. What you've got to do is to find means to get Nessa away.
gpt
How are these things managed?
human
She must have a permit to travel; that will be difficult enough: and to cross the frontier there must be a passport, of course. That's where the Count stops everything. He has dinned it into the powers that be that she's a spy and wants to get away to carry her information to England. We nearly got one; but at the last moment the whole plan failed.
gpt
Did Aunt Olga help, then?
human
No, mother wouldn't. It was--was a friend of mine, Herr Feldmann, if you wish to know,
gpt
It appears to me that your English girl is lucky to have found such staunch friends, Rosa, I said as earnestly as I felt.
human
And between us we ought to be able to outwit this von Erstein.
gpt
I wonder if you mean that,
human
I think you'll find I do. They told me at Rotterdam that I had had a very near squeak of death; and whether it's that or something else, I don't seem to have any of the meannesses you associate with me. I am perfectly in earnest. Perhaps I've dropped the rest with my memory.
gpt
I hope you have, Johann, and there's certainly a sincere look in your eyes there never used to be. Ah! There they are,