human
Love! she said. It was too dark to see her face, but her voice sounded unpleasantly scornful.
gpt
I shouldn't have thought that you would have been so conventional as that. You seemed different.
human
Eh?
gpt
I hate all this talk about Love, as if it were something wonderful that was worth everything else in life put together. Every book you read and every song that you see in the shop-windows is all about Love. It's as if the whole world were in a conspiracy to persuade themselves that there's a wonderful something just round the corner which they can get if they try hard enough. And they hypnotise themselves into thinking of nothing else and miss all the splendid things of life.
human
That's Shaw, isn't it?
gpt
What is Shaw?
human
What you were saying. It's out of one of Bernard Shaw's things, isn't it?
gpt
It is not. A note of acidity had crept into Ann's voice.
human
It is perfectly original.
gpt
I'm certain I've heard it before somewhere.
human
If you have, that simply means that you must have associated with some sensible person.
gpt
But why the grouch?
human
I don't understand you.
gpt
I mean, why do you feel that way about it?