human
I've promised to go to Algiers,
gpt
To Algiers! Why? What is there to do there? You know it inside out.
human
Scarcely that. I'm going to stay with Charmian Heath.
gpt
Oh! Whereabouts are they?
human
Up at Mustapha, not far from Mrs. Graham.
gpt
They say he's trying to write an opera. Poor fellow! The very last thing he could do, I should think. But she pushes him on. Since that song of his--I forget the name, heart something or other--her head has been completely turned about his talent. The fact is, Susan, Sennier's sudden fame has turned all their heads, the young composers, _les jeunes_, you know. They are all trying to write operas. In Paris it's too absurd! But an Englishman, with his temperament, too--Oliver Cromwell in Harris tweed!--she must be mad. Of course even if he ever finishes it he will never get it produced.
human
A totally unknown man. She thinks that song has made him quite a celebrity. But nobody has ever heard of him.
gpt
Nobody had ever heard of Sennier till that night at Covent Garden,
human
Oh, yes, they had!
gpt
Among the people who matter in Paris he was quite famous.
human
Oh, I didn't know that,
gpt
How could you? Besides, Sennier is a great man, the only man we have, in fact. So you were going to stay with the Heaths?
human
I am going. I promised Charmian Heath.
gpt
When?
human
In about ten days, I think. My mother is rather unwell, only a bad cold. But I like to be at Folkestone to help Mrs. Simpkins.
gpt
Susan, what an extraordinary person you are!
human
Why?
gpt
You are. But you are so extraordinary that I could never make you see why. Sandringham and Mrs. Simpkins! There is no one like you.
human
What do you think of Charmian Heath, Susan--really think, I mean? Do you care for her?
gpt
Yes, I do.
human
Oh, I don't mean as a theosophist, I mean as a human being.
gpt
We are human beings.
human
You are certainly. But, of course, I know you embrace Charmian Heath with your universal love, just as you embrace me and Mrs. Simpkins and the King and the crossing-sweeper at the corner. That doesn't interest me. I wish to know whether you like her as you don't like me and the King and the crossing-sweeper?
gpt
Charmian Heath and I are good friends. I am interested in her.
human
In a woman!
gpt
Greatly because she is a woman.
human
I know you're a suffragette at heart!
gpt
I'll take you over to Algiers, Susan.
human
But you don't want to go there.
gpt
It's absurd your going in one of those awful steamers from Marseilles when the yacht is only about half an hour away.
human
Half an hour! I thought she was at Naples.
gpt
I said _about_ half an hour on purpose to be accurate.
human
Really, I would just as soon take the steamer,