human
Well, what is it?
gpt
This is no sort of place for you, you know,
human
Here it comes, she laughed;
gpt
Well, I am looking at them, I told her.
human
I see nothing but greed. I see no face that has not already lost a great part of its attractiveness.
gpt
Perhaps! she replied indifferently.
human
I will grant you that greed is the keynote of this place; yet even that has its interesting side. Where else do you see it so developed? Where else could you see the same emotion actuating a number of very different people in an altogether different manner?
gpt
For an adventuress, I remarked,
human
No one in the world, except those who live by adventures, ever has any inducement to notice things, she retorted.
gpt
That is why amateurs are such failures. One never does anything so well as when one does it for one's living.
human
The question is arguable,
gpt
Every question is arguable if it is worth while, she agreed carelessly.
human
Look at all those people coming in!
gpt
I don't understand it, I confessed.
human
These places are against the law, yet there seems to be no concealment at all! Why aren't we raided?
gpt
Raids in this part of London only take place by arrangement, she assured me.
human
This place will reach its due date sometime, but every one will know all about it beforehand. They are making a clear profit here of about four hundred pounds a night and it has been running for two months now. When the raid comes Mr. Rubenstein--I think that is his name--can pay his five- hundred-pound fine and move on somewhere else. It's wicked--the money they make here some nights!
gpt
You seem to know a good deal about it,
human
The place interests father, she told me.
gpt
He comes here often.
human
And you?
gpt
Sometimes. I am not always in the humor.