human
Immense; you must go.
gpt
You mustn’t go unless you want to be driven crazy with noise, put in Hilda.
human
Robert says I am deficient in the sense of humor, but you positively can’t think in that place. There was a Chinese-American in the audience acting as an interpreter, and I suppose he saw that Robert was interested; so he just stayed with us, and put the crowning touch to the confusion by explaining the play at a pitch to be heard above the squealing music and the shrieking actors.
gpt
Women’s parts all taken by men, of course, explained her husband,
human
Yes, they were; and so was the baby we saw upstairs in the Joss-house. He was ten months old, with a black tuft of hair on top of his head exactly like the Chinese dolls, and was dressed in green silk trousers and a red silk shirt.
gpt
You must have wanted to steal him,
human
That is what his mother thought, I am sure. He lay asleep in a little wagon, and when she heard me exclaim, she flew out from behind a curtain with a very suspicious expression on her pretty face. Yes, she was really pretty, and dimpled, and young; and her hands were loaded with rings. Robert, just look here one minute. Don’t you think the filigree handle is the prettier?
gpt
My dear, I ate too many bananas once, and have never since been able to endure the sight of them. If you knew the sentiments with which a souvenir spoon inspires me, you would tremble.
human
I will take the filigree one,