human
I must get out from under, I said,
gpt
I thought you were enjoying life, he replied.
human
You're well enough, as a matter of fact, to do almost anything except go back to the front. Your legs won't run to that, my boy, for the next six months at least. If you're such an ungrateful beggar that you want to leave Lady Haslemere's paradise and all its lovely houris, save yourself. Don't put the responsibility on me.
gpt
Coward! I said. (I would have hissed it, but, except in novels, it is physically impossible to hiss the word
human
The same to you, he retorted.
gpt
Get someone to send you on some mission and I'll back you up. I'll certify that you're strong enough to undertake it, if it doesn't depend on your legs, and is not too strenuous.
human
I may need to run over to America, it suddenly occurred to me to say, as if by inspiration.
gpt
I should have to depend on brains, not legs. Would New York be too strenuous?
human
I hear they're pretty strenuous over there, but--well----
gpt
You don't know what I go through every day at that confounded home for milksops when your back is turned,