human
Yes, I think it did.
gpt
They all liked you.
human
I'm glad!
gpt
You make an excellent host, Claudie; you are so ready, so sympathetic! You listen so well, and look as if you really cared, whether you do or not. It's such a help to a man in his career to have a manner like yours. But I remember noticing it the first time I ever met you in Max Elliot's music-room. What a shame of Adelaide Shiffney not to come!
human
Did you want Mrs. Shiffney to come so particularly?
gpt
Yes, I did. Not for myself, of course. I don't pretend to be fond of her, though I don't dislike her! But she ought to have come after accepting. People thought she was coming to-night. I wonder why she rushed off to Paris like that?
human
I should think it was probably something to do with the Senniers. Max Elliot told me just now that she lives and breathes Sennier.
gpt
Max does exactly the same, said Charmian.
human
It really becomes rather silly--in a man.
gpt
But Sennier is worth it. Nothing spurious about him.
human
I never said there was. But still--Margot is rather tiresome, too, with her rages first for this person and then for the other.
gpt
Who is it now?
human
Oh, she's Sennier-mad like the others.
gpt
Still?
human
Yes, after all these months. She's actually going over to America, I believe, just to hear the _Paradis_ once at the Metropolitan. Five days out, five back, and one night there. Isn't it absurd? She's had it put in the _Daily Mail_. And then she says she can't think how things about her get into the papers! Margot really is rather a humbug!
gpt
Still, she admires the right thing when she admires Sennier's talent,
human
How odd you are!
gpt
Why? In what way am I odd?
human
In almost every way, I think. But it's all right. You ought to be odd.
gpt
What do you mean, Charmian?
human
Jacques Sennier's odd, extraordinary. People like that always are. You are.