human
Is your maid here, Miss O'Mahony?
gpt
I haven't got a maid,
human
Father, where on earth are we going?
gpt
I suppose Mr. Moss can tell us.
human
You are going to apartments which I have secured for Miss O'Mahony at considerable trouble, said Mr. Moss.
gpt
The theatres are all stirring.
human
But we are not going to live in a theatre.
gpt
The ladies of the theatres find only one situation convenient. They must live somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Strand. I have secured two sitting-rooms and two bedrooms on the first floor, overlooking the views at Brown's.
human
Won't they cost money?
gpt
Of course they will, said Rachel.
human
What fools we have been! We intended to go to some inn for one night till we could find a fitting place,--somewhere about Gower Street.
gpt
Gower Street wouldn't do at all, said Mr. Moss.
human
The distance from everything would be very great. Two ideas passed at that moment through Rachel's mind. The first was that the distance might serve to keep Mr. Moss out of her sitting-room, and the second was that were she to succeed in doing this, she might be forced to go to his sitting-room.
gpt
I think Gower Street would be found to be inconvenient, Miss O'Mahony.
human
Bloomsbury Square is very near. Here we are at the hotel. Now, father, before you have anything taken off the carriages, ask the prices.
gpt
I think if Miss O'Mahony would allow me, I would counsel her against too rigid an economy. She will have heard of the old proverb,--'A penny wise and a pound foolish.'
human
It won't matter for one night,
gpt
I don't like the look of the house at all, father, you don't know what the people would be up to. I shall never go to sleep in this house.
human
Father, she said,
gpt
I'm sure that Frank would not approve.
human
I don't think that he would feel himself bound to interfere,
gpt
When a young woman is engaged to a young man it does make a difference,
human
The happy man, said Mr. Moss, still bowing and smiling,
gpt
If we stay here very long, said Rachel, still addressing her father,
human
I guess we should have to pawn our watches. But here we are for the present, and here we must remain. I am awfully tired now, and should so like to have a cup of tea--by ourselves. Then Mr. Moss took his leave, promising to appear again upon the scene at eleven o'clock on the following day.
gpt
Thank you, said Rachel,
human
What is the use of your carrying on like that with the man?
gpt
Because he's a beast.
human
My dear, he's not a beast. He's not a beast that you ought to treat in that way. You'll be a beast too if you come to rise high in your profession. It is a kind of work which sharpens the intellect, but is apt to make men and women beasts. Did you ever hear of a prima donna who thought that another prima donna sang better than she did?
gpt
I guess that all the prima donnas sing better than I do.
human
But you have not got to the position yet. Mr. Moss, I take it, was doing very well in New York, so as to have become a beast, as you call him. But he's very good-natured.
gpt
He's a nasty, stuck-up, greasy Jew. A decent young woman is insulted by being spoken to by him.
human
What made you tell him that you were engaged to Frank Jones?
gpt
I thought it might protect me--but it won't. I shall tell him next time that I am Frank's wife. But even that will not protect me.
human
You will have to see him very often.
gpt
And very often I shall have to be insulted. I guess he does the same kind of thing with all the singing girls who come into his hands.
human
Give it up, Rachel.
gpt
I don't mind being insulted so much as some girls do, you know. I can't fancy an English girl putting up with him--unless she liked to do as he pleased. I hate him;--but I think I can endure him. The only thing is, whether he would turn against me and rend me. Then we shall come utterly to the ground, here in London.
human
Give it up.
gpt
No! You can lecture and I can sing, and it's odd if we can't make one profession or the other pay. I think I shall have to fight with him, but I won't give it up. What I am afraid is that Frank should appear on the scene. And then, oh law! if Mr. Moss should get one blow in the eye!