human
Thanks
gpt
I certainly do, he said more definitely.
human
Look at it this way. _The Confessions_ has been out eight weeks and we have sold just over thirty thousand copies. That is pretty good, I know, and I'm extremely grateful to you. But that is the past. Now look at the present. By careful advertising I've induced the public to be really interested in the question as to Zoë's real identity. That's not going to last, my son. Somebody will do a murder or find out a home cure for corpulence. In half a week the chatty columns of the Daily will be full of something else. Every one who wants to has read Zoë and decided who she is. Very well, then. Now, and here he raised a podgy but dramatic finger,
gpt
I'm very sorry if so, he said wearily,
human
(He spoke more warmly now.)
gpt
I always warned you that I couldn't tell you who had written it.
human
Bah! The publisher waved that aside with a smooth fat hand which left a trail of smoke.
gpt
That's always so in the beginning, it's part of the game, but now it's in my interest, the book's, your friend's, your own as her adviser--I shall see you're mentioned as discoverer of the diary's great merits--in everybody's interest....