human
Will you let me look at that bill you're holding? I'll not touch it; I merely want to look.
gpt
What is the signature it bears?
human
Don't know? I'll tell you. Donald Lindsay, of Cloverlea.
gpt
Donald Lindsay, of Cloverlea? And who is Donald Lindsay, of Cloverlea?
human
Really, Mr. Clifford, when you didn't become an actor what the stage lost! and now-a-days there are so few actors who are to the manner born. It's the very gist of your offending, you sly scamp, that you made such use of the knowledge you had surreptitiously obtained that Joseph Oldfield, of Peter Piper's Popular Pills, was Donald Lindsay, of Cloverlea.
gpt
What's that? Would you mind saying that again?
human
I'll not say it again; I'll not pipe to your dancing, you brazen vagabond!
gpt
Are you hinting that Joseph Oldfield is, or was, I don't know which it ought to be, a pseudonym? that he had, or has, another name?
human
Is that the trick you're trying to play? You wish it to be believed that you didn't know there was such a person as Donald Lindsay; that he and Joseph Oldfield were one and the same; and that in putting the name upon a bill stamp you did it innocently, in ignorance that was childlike and bland. The idea is ingenious; as, I fancy, Mr. Clifford, most of your ideas are; but you won't find a judge or jury quite so simple.