human
I suppose we can't drop a hint,
gpt
Drop a hint, Asherton-Smith sneered.
human
You're a clever chap, you are--too clever by half. But if that's all the idea you've got you'd better shut up. Perhaps you'd like to go and tell the story to the Lord Mayor?
gpt
Who could have anticipated anything like this? he groaned.
human
And the worst of it is that we dare not say a word. The merest hint would invite suspicion, and you may be pretty sure that they would make the punishment fit the crime. We'll just have to grin and bear it.
gpt
You miserable swindler! he yelled.
human
But for you I should have been a rich man to-day. And now I am ruined--ruined!