human
Ah, very well. For this is how I am situated, said Mr. Bethune, gravely and grandly as befitted the seriousness of the theme.
gpt
I have an appointment in Jermyn-street at six o’clock. I may be detained. Now I can undertake to be at Mentavisti’s Restaurant at seven—and when the dinner-hour is once fixed, to play shilly-shally with it seems to me abominable—but I am not so sure that I shall have time to return home first. It will be better, therefore, and everyway safer, for Maisrie to come down by herself in a cab—
human
But mayn’t I call for her? the young man suggested at once.
gpt
You know she would much rather walk down than drive.
human
Oh, very well, very well, if you don’t mind,