human
Have patience with me, dear friend, as you have done before, and as you will have to do again, he said softly.
gpt
It isn't that I don't trust you--haven't I trusted you with life itself before now, and never found you wanting?--but it is that at present my theories are in somewhat of a muddle, and it's only keeping my own counsel that's going to help me to disentangle them.
human
I know, I know, old chap, returned the Superintendent, casting aside his rancour at this apology from the man who was his best friend, with his usual heartiness.
gpt
I'm a slow-thinking old beggar, and somehow your lightning sketches get the better of my patience. But I'll back you to unravel the knot every time. Think you've come to the end, then?
human
I fancy so. With a little bit of bold guesswork thrown in to make equal measure. That must always be reckoned in the bargain, you know. But if I haven't found the person or persons who have murdered Sir Andrew in that cold-blooded and diabolically clever manner, then my name's not--Arthur Deland. And I know as much about the methods of sleuth-hounds as my old boot!