human
Oh, do you think so? I'm very glad, because I'm afraid not many people do....
gpt
But I had no idea you ever noticed people's looks.
human
So far as I remember, I never did before. I think it was the appearance of your eyes as you looked out over the plain that attracted my attention. Then, looking closer, I noticed that you are beautiful.
gpt
Oh, Mr. Queed, has the Department you or Colonel Cowles to thank for the editorial about the reformatory this morning?
human
Both of us. He suggested it and I wrote it. So you really cannot tell us apart?
gpt
All this winter we shall work preparing the State's mind for this institution, convincing it so thoroughly that when the legislature meets again, it simply will not dare to refuse us. When I mention we and us, understand that I am speaking to you Departmentally. After that there are ten thousand other things that we want to do. But everything is so immortally slow! We are not allowed to raise our fingers without a hundred years' war first. Don't you ever wish for money--oceans and oceans of lovely money?
human
Good heavens, no!
gpt
I do. I'd pepper this State with institutions. Did you know, she said sweetly,
human
Yes, said Queed,
gpt
I knew. In fact, I had not been here a week before I heard of Henry G. Surface. Major Brooke speaks of him constantly, Colonel Cowles occasionally. Do you, he asked,
human
Well, said Sharlee, gently,
gpt
I'm glad my father never knew.