human
What's the matter?
gpt
You mustn't go to the house. Everything has gone wrong.
human
Everything gone wrong? I thought I had made a hit. I have with your uncle, anyway. We parted on the friendliest terms. We have arranged to go to the ball-game together to-morrow. He is going to tell them at the office that Carnegie wants to see him.
gpt
It isn't uncle Peter. It's aunt Nesta.
human
Ah, there you touch my conscience. I was a little tactless, I'm afraid, with Ogden. It happened before you came into the room. I suppose that is the trouble?
gpt
It has nothing do with that, said Ann impatiently.
human
It's much worse. Aunt Nesta is suspicious. She has guessed that you aren't really Jimmy Crocker.
gpt
Great Scott! How?
human
I tried to calm her down, but she still suspects. So now she has decided to wait and see if Skinner, the butler, knows you. If he doesn't, she will know that she was right.
gpt
I don't quite follow the reasoning. Surely it's a peculiar kind of test. Why should she think a man cannot be honest and true unless her butler knows him? There must be hundreds of worthy citizens whom he does not know.
human
Skinner arrived from England a few days ago. Until then he was employed by Mrs. Crocker. Now do you understand?