human
D'you like him so much?
gpt
You're making a great mistake, said Charmian, with airy dignity.
human
I was only surprised to hear that Claude Heath was coming. I didn't know it. I understood he had refused to come. He always refuses everything. How did you hear of him?
gpt
The Adelaide has been talking about him. She says he's a genius who hates the evil world, and will only know her and your mother, and that he's going with her and you and Max Elliot to the Greek Isles on one condition--that nobody else is to be asked and that he is to be introduced to no one. If it's really the Greek Isles, I think I ought to be taken. I told the Adelaide so, but she said Claude Heath would rather die than have a girl like me with him on the yacht.
human
So he really has accepted?
gpt
Evidently. Now you don't look pleased.
human
Mr. Heath's Madretta's friend, not mine,
gpt
Really? Then your mother should go to Greece. Why did the Adelaide ask you?
human
I can't imagine.
gpt
Now, Charmian!
human
I assure you, Margot, I was amazed at being asked.
gpt
But you accepted.
human
I wanted to get out of this weather.
gpt
With a Cornish genius?
human
Mr. Heath only looks at middle-aged married women, said Charmian.
gpt
I think he has a horror of girls. He and I don't get on at all.
human
What is he like?
gpt
Plain and gaunt.
human
Is his music really so wonderful?
gpt
I've never heard a note of it.
human
Hasn't your mother?
gpt
Once, I think. But she has said very little about it.
human
There's that darling Millie from Paris!
gpt
Who? Where?
human
Millie Deans, the only real actress on the operatic stage. Until you've seen her in _Crêpe de Chine_ you've never seen opera as it ought to be. Millie! Millie!
gpt
The Brighton tradition