human
Is it possible? murmured his female confederate.
gpt
Our time has not been wasted after all, then. Our people knew what they were doing when they sent us to this house.
human
Our people always know what they are doing, said the sham Belgian, with a cunning leer.
gpt
What would you have? A family, the father of which is a brigadier-general at the front; the eldest son also a captain at the front; and the young boy on the point of joining the Army. They were just the very people likely to talk, to say nothing of that greatest fool of all, Uncle Staff Captain, who told me a great deal when he dined here on Wednesday. Ottilie, these English are lunatics, and it is not for nothing that we have opened their letters for the last six months without their discovering it. Still, I must confess I had never expected a piece of luck so complete and so timely as this,