human
It's going to be dull, she said.
gpt
Covent Garden has things all its own way, and therefore it goes to sleep. But in June we shall have Sennier. That is something. Without him it would really not be worth while to take a box. I told Mr. Brett so.
human
What did he say?
gpt
One Sennier makes a summer.
human
I know, he said to Lady Mildred,
gpt
Hilary knows less about music than even the average Englishman.
human
Well, he's been swearing, and even--saving your presence--cursing by Strauss.
gpt
He thinks that places him with the connoisseurs. It's his ambition to prove to the world that one may be an Admiral and yet be quite intelligent, even have what is called taste. He declines to be a sea-dog.
human
I think it's only living up to you. But have you really no hope of the opera?
gpt
Very little--unless Sennier saves the situation.
human
Has he anything new?
gpt
Madame Sennier says he hasn't.
human
We ought to have a rival enterprise here as they have in New York at present,
gpt
Sennier's success at the Metropolitan has nearly killed the New Era, said Elliot.
human
But Crayford has any amount of pluck, and a purse that seems inexhaustible. I suppose you know he's to be here to-night.
gpt
Mr. Jacob Crayford, the Impresario! exclaimed Charmian.
human
He's in England?
gpt
Arrived to-day by the _Lusitania_ in search of talent, of someone who can 'produce the goods' as he calls it. Adelaide sent a note to meet him at the Savoy, and he's coming. Shows his pluck, doesn't it? This is the enemy's camp.
human
Crayford would give a hundred thousand dollars without a murmur to get Jacques away from the Metropolitan,
gpt
Won't he go for that? asked Lady Mildred, in her hollow voice.
human
Is Madame Sennier holding out for two hundred thousand?
gpt
Henriette! Has she anything to do with it?
human
Mr. Elliot! You know she arranges everything for her husband.
gpt
Do I? Do I really? Ah, there is Crayford!
human
Where?
gpt
He's going up to Adelaide now. He's taking her hand, just over there. Margot Drake is speaking to him.
human
Margot--of course! But I can't see them.
gpt
If you stand here. Are you so very anxious to see him?
human
Because I've heard so much about the New York battle from Margot.
gpt
To be sure!
human
What--that little man!
gpt
Why not?
human
With the tiny beard! It's the tiniest beard I ever saw.
gpt
More brain than beard, said Max Elliot.
human
I can assure you Mr. Crayford is one of the most energetic, determined, enterprising, and courageous men on either side of the Atlantic. Diabolically clever, too, in his way, but an idealist at heart. Some people in America think that last fact puts him at a disadvantage as a manager. It certainly gives him point and even charm as a man.
gpt
I should like very much to know him, said Charmian.
human
Of course you know him?
gpt
Yes.
human
Do introduce me to him.