human
Did you have an interesting time at dinner?
gpt
Not specially so. Music was never mentioned.
human
Was boxing?
gpt
Boxing!
human
Well, Mr. Elliot said he and Mr. Heath met first at a place in Whitechapel where Conky somebody was fighting the Nutcracker.
gpt
I suspect the new note to be a poseur, not quite of the usual species, but a poseur. Most musicians are ludicrously of their profession. This one is too much apparently detached from it to be quite natural. But the truth is, nobody is really natural. And no doubt it's a great mercy that it is so.
human
You know there's something in you that I can't abide, as old dames say.
gpt
I hope so, he said.
human
Or else I should certainly lack variety. Well, Max, what is it?
gpt
Mrs. Shiffney wants you.
human
I always want him. I swim in his irony and can't sink, like a tourist in the Dead Sea.
gpt
What a left-handed compliment!
human
A right-handed one would bore you to death, and my aim in life is--
gpt
To avoid being bored. How often do you succeed in your aim?
human
Whenever I am with you in this delightful house.
gpt
It is delightful, said Charmian to her host.
human
But why? Of course it is beautiful. But that's not all. It's personal. Perhaps that's it.