human
I only asked you what was wrong, what made you stop so suddenly?
gpt
It was that thing the band is playing now, said the Spaniard.
human
Strange they should have it here already! It is out of the new African opera by Saltenet, La Naïlia,
gpt
Your song?
human
My song. If a certain letter hadn't come to me on the night of the last rehearsal but one, and if we hadn't been in Marseilles, rehearsing, I shouldn't be here to-night. I should be in Paris, perhaps coming on to the stage at this moment, where I suppose my understudy is grimacing like the conceited monkey he is.
gpt
By jove!