human
We have been betrayed!
gpt
Betrayed?
human
Betrayed? In what manner?
gpt
Her Highness has had no hand in this. I know. Some one with malice has done this petty thing. To La Signorina everything had gone wrong to-day.
human
I shall telegraph her Highness at once. I say that we have been made the victims of some practical joke.
gpt
Joke or not, we can't stay here now, Smith declared.
human
All the high muckamucks in and roundabout Florence will be getting out their jewels and gowns. If we send a denial to the paper, and we really have no authority to do that, there'll be a whole raft of 'em who will not see it. And since nobody knows how many invitations have been sent out or to whom they have been sent--oh, what's the use of all this arguing? The thing's done. No matter how we figure it, we're all railroaded. Third-class to Naples and twelve days in the steerage. Whew!
gpt
I guess Hillard and I can help you, said Merrihew.
human
We'll see that you get home all right.
gpt
To be sure,
human
We'll make good, once we strike Broadway,