human
Jack, Jack!
gpt
What is it?
human
That is my play!
gpt
You mean that you inspired it?
human
No, I have written it, or rather, was going to write it.
gpt
Wake up, Ernest! You are mad!
human
No, in all seriousness. It is mine. I told you--don't you remember--when we returned from Coney Island--that I was writing a play.
gpt
Ah, but not this play.
human
Yes, this play. I conceived it, I practically wrote it.
gpt
The more's the pity that Clarke had preconceived it.
human
But it is mine!
gpt
Did you tell him a word about it?
human
No, to be sure.
gpt
Did you leave the manuscript in your room?
human
I had, in fact, not written a line of it. No, I had not begun the actual writing.
gpt
Why should a man of Clarke's reputation plagiarise your plays, written or unwritten?
human
I can see no reason. But--
gpt
Tut, tut.