human
You did that well, Violet, Sellon was saying.
gpt
The idea of that old party sitting there mounting guard over your wraps on board the wrong ship is a reminiscence that'll set me up in laughter for the rest of my life.
human
Poor old Mrs Aldridge, said Violet, with a touch of compunction.
gpt
I'm afraid she won't get over it in a hurry--and she's a good old thing. But it's all Hilda Selwood's fault. She shouldn't have set her relations on to `police' me.
human
Ha, ha! It wasn't in them to upset our little programme, though. When old Selwood put you on board the _Siberian_ at Fort Elizabeth, he reckoned it was all safe then. So it was, as far as he was concerned. He's a good chap, though, is Selwood, and I wouldn't willingly plant such a sell upon him if I could help it, but I couldn't. It's ever a case of two `sells' as between him and me, to distort his old joke. It was nearly a third one, though, Violet, for I was beginning to make up my mind you were never coming. In another minute I should have gone ashore again when I saw your cab tearing along like mad. As it was, we only fetched the _Rangatira_ by the skin of our teeth, and a royal honorarium to the boatmen.
gpt
Ah, Maurice, I have got you now--and you are mine. Are you not, darling?
human
It looks uncommonly like it.
gpt
For life?
human
For that identical period. So now, cheer up, my Violet. The world is a mere football at the feet of those who have the means to exploit it, and we have. That wretched little foggy England isn't the whole world.