human
Jehosaphat! he exclaimed in a low voice.
gpt
You look like something out of Rider Haggard, or grand opera, or---- Why, you're barbaric!
human
Isn't it awful!
gpt
Awful? Why, it's magnificent! You're not dressed--you're arrayed! You're a poem, a ballad--a romance! You're a queen of Egypt; you're something from the next world! You're--oh, baby!
human
Hush, for Heaven's sake! I just can't wear this. It's impossible!
gpt
You're a hasheesh dream,
human
I've no shoes, she said.
gpt
And the stockings are not mates.
human
You're a vision from heaven,
gpt
Shut up! Don't you see I'm no better off than I was before? Neither are you.
human
We're warmer, anyhow.
gpt
Oh, be sensible.
human
And we're more beautiful,
gpt
But we can't go anywhere in these things! she cried.
human
We'll be arrested. We haven't any money. We'll be taken for lunatics. And then they'll find out we're thieves. And then---- Oh, I wish I'd never come on this awful trip!
gpt
You're a hard lady to please, he said.
human
But I'll see what I can do. Go back in the summer-house and wait for me. If anybody bothers you, jump at them and do some kind of an incantation. They'll leave you alone, fast enough.
gpt
Where are you going now?
human
Well, having stolen a classy outfit of society lingerie for you, I'm now going to see if I can steal you a limousine.
gpt
Peter! Don't you leave me here. Come back! I----