human
Yuh, I guess that was it. Do you remember how you gave us an imitation of him telling the class that if they'd work like sixty they might get to be little tin gods on wheels like himself, and how he'd always keep dropping his eye-glasses and fishing 'em up on a cord while he was talking--don't you remember how you took him off? Why, I thought Mrs. Hunt-that-is--I've forgotten what her name was before Sandy married her--why, I thought she'd split, laughing. She admired you a whole pile, lemme tell you; I could see that.
gpt
Why, she probably thought I was just a stuffy, stupid, ugly old thing, as old as--
human
As old as Eddie Schwirtz, heh? Go on, insult me! I can stand it! Lemme tell you I ain't forty-three till next October. Look here now, little sister, I know when a woman admires another. Lemme tell you, if you'd ever traveled for dry-goods like I did, out of St. Paul once, for a couple of months--nev-er again; paint and varnish is good enough for Eddie any day--and if you'd sold a bunch of women buyers, you'd know how they looked when they liked a thing, alrightee! Not that I want to knock The Sex, y' understand, but you know yourself, bein' a shemale, that there's an awful lot of cats among the ladies--God bless 'em--that wouldn't admit another lady was beautiful, not if she was as good-looking as Lillian Russell, corking figger and the swellest dresser in town.
gpt
Yes, perhaps--sometimes,
human
But I was saying: It was a cinch to see that Sandy's girl thought you was ace high, alrightee. She kept her eyes glommed onto you all the time.
gpt
But what would she find to admire?
human
Uh-huh, fishing for compliments!
gpt
No, I am _not_, so there! Una's cheeks burned delightfully. She was back in Panama again--in Panama, where for endless hours on dark porches young men tease young women and tell them that they are beautiful.... Mr. Schwirtz was direct and