human
You haven't given me anything for my sleeplessness,
gpt
Think you must have a prescription?
human
It will take some time for your advice to work out, if it ever does, Coolidge said.
gpt
Meanwhile, the more good sleep I get the fitter I shall be for the effort.
human
True enough. All right, you shall have the prescription.
gpt
at the bottom, folded the slip and handed it to his friend.
human
Put it away till you're ready to get it filled,
gpt
Thank you, Red, for it all, said Gardner Coolidge.
human
There have been minutes when I felt differently, but I understand you better now. And I see why your waiting room is full of patients even on a stormy day.
gpt
No, you don't, denied Red Pepper Burns stoutly.
human
If you saw me take their heads off you'd wonder that they ever came again. Plenty of them don't--and I don't blame them--when I've cooled off.
gpt
You never lie awake thinking over what you've said or done, do you, Red? Bygones are bygones with a man like you. You couldn't do your work if they weren't!
human
That's what the outsiders always think,
gpt
Isn't it true?
human
You may as well go on thinking it is--and so may the rest. What's the use of explaining oneself, or trying to? Better to go on looking unsympathetic--and suffering, sometimes, more than all one's patients put together!