human
I am going to make the most idiotically commonplace remark, he said.
gpt
I cannot believe that this is the first time we have met.
human
It isn't,
gpt
Are you in earnest?
human
Do you mean that I have spoken to you?
gpt
Absolutely!
human
Not only that but you have made me a present.
gpt
Let me see, she said,
human
To Lord Peters!
gpt
You had half an hour to spare after you had finished your business, and you begged to see the young people. Maggie Peters was always a friend of yours. You came into the morning-room and I was there.
human
You?
gpt
Yes! I was at school in Paris, and I was spending my half-holiday with Maggie.
human
The little brown girl! he murmured.
gpt
I never heard your name, and when I sent the chocolates I had to send them to 'the young lady in brown.' Of course I remember! But your hair was down your back, you had freckles, and you were as silent as a mouse.
human
You see how much better my memory is than yours,
gpt
I am not so sure, he objected.
human
You took me for the gardener just now.
gpt
Not when you came down the steps, she protested,
human
They shall be given away to-morrow,
gpt
I should think so, she replied.
human
And you might part with the battered straw hat you were wearing, at the same time.
gpt
It shall be done,
human
We were all so interested in you in those days. Lord Peters told us, after you were gone, that some day you would be Prime Minister.
gpt
I am afraid, he sighed,
human
You have disappointed no one, she assured him firmly.
gpt
You will disappoint no one. You are the one person in politics who has kept a steadfast course, and if you have lost ground a little in the country, and slipped out of people's political appreciation during the last decade, don't we all know why? Every one of your friends--and your wife, of course, she put in hastily,