human
What a world it is to conquer!
gpt
Isn't it splendid out here! she said.
human
What an almost maddening whirl of life. Faces, faces, faces, and brains and souls behind them. I love to see all these faces to-day. I feel the brains and the souls are wanting something that you are going to give them.
gpt
Let us hope one or two out of the multitude may be!
human
One or two! Claudie, you miserable niggard! You always think yourself unwanted. But you will see to-night. Every reserved seat and every box is taken, every single one! Think of that--and all because of what you have done. Are we going to Central Park?
gpt
Unless you wish to promenade up and down Fifth Avenue.
human
No, I did say the Park, and we will go there. But let us walk near the edge, not too far away from this marvellous city. Never was there a city like New York for life. I'm sure of that. It's as if every living creature had quicksilver in his veins--or her veins. For I never saw such vital women as one sees here anywhere else! Oh, Claude! When you conquer these wonderful women!
gpt
New York intoxicates me to-day!
human
How are you going to do without it?
gpt
When we go?
human
Yes, when we go home?
gpt
Home? But where is our home?
human
In Kensington Square, I suppose.
gpt
I don't feel as if we should ever be able to settle down there again. That little house saw our little beginnings, when we didn't know what we really meant to do.
human
Djenan-el-Maqui then?
gpt
Ah! she said, with a changed voice.
human
Djenan-el-Maqui! What I have felt there! More than I ever can tell you, Claudie.
gpt
I wonder how Enid Mardon is feeling, she said, looking up at the ranges of windows.
human
Which is the tenth floor where she is?
gpt
Don't ask me to count to-day. I would rather play with the squirrels.