human
You go! And I'll take Susan Fleet as a chaperon and run over to Paris with Alston Lake.
gpt
What--to find the libretto? But there's no one in Paris in August.
human
Leave that to us,
gpt
It would need to be as Oriental in the score as _Louise_ is French, he said.
human
And what do I know----
gpt
Go and get it! interrupted Lake.
human
Nothing ties you to London. Spend a couple of years over it, if you like. It would be worth it. And Crayford says there's going to be a regular 'boom' in Eastern things in a year or two.
gpt
Now how can he possibly know that?
human
My boy, he does know it. Crayford knows everything. He looks ahead, by Jove! Fools don't know what the people want. Clever men do know what they want. And Crayfords know what they're going to want.