human
Seriously, Helen, I know this is a great annoyance to you, and I deeply regret annoying you with anything. But it is absolutely necessary for me to go to New York at once, and to remain there for I don't know how long. It means more to me than you can imagine. It means success and power. Perhaps it may mean wealth, also. We were to have been married in July. I may not be able to leave New York then without risk of loss and ruin. So we must be married to-night, and you shall have your vision of New York after all. It is now nine o'clock. I will be back here at eleven, with a license and a clergyman. I have written to Mose Harbell to send you a dozen newsboys for messengers. They'll be here soon. He will send 'genial' ones, of course, and they will carry notes summoning all your friends to the wedding. Lily Holliday will help you with the notes. You might send for Daisy Berkeley too, or I'll call by there on my way down town, and tell her you've a romantic secret to confide to her. That will send her to you in five minutes. It would if it were midnight and she in bed.
gpt
What is it?
human
I could not think of yielding to so preposterous a plan, said Helen, after she had briefly explained the situation,
gpt
Do? cried Daisy.
human
Why carry the thing through, of course. It's the most deliciously romantic thing I ever heard of in my life. Oh, how I do envy you!
gpt
But what am I to do for clothes, Daisy? And besides, it's so undignified!
human
Daisy Berkeley! You forget yourself. You are under five feet high, and I am five feet eight inches.
gpt
Well, never mind about clothes. You have plenty of them. It's all nonsense, the way we women talk about nothing to wear. Somebody wrote a book or something to prove it once. Who would spoil a delicious romance--oh, it is so delicious--for nonsense like that! Why, it'll make you the talk of the town.
human
That's just it. I have no desire to be the talk of the town. But there is no help for it now.