human
Oh yes,--Madame Melmotte told me. I take it they are very intimate.
gpt
Mr. Longestaffe ask the Melmottes to visit him at Caversham!
human
Why not?
gpt
I should almost as soon have believed that I myself might have been induced to ask them here.
human
I fancy, Roger, that Mr. Longestaffe does want a little pecuniary assistance.
gpt
And he condescends to get it in this way! I suppose it will make no difference soon whom one knows, and whom one doesn't. Things aren't as they were, of course, and never will be again. Perhaps it's all for the better;--I won't say it isn't. But I should have thought that such a man as Mr. Longestaffe might have kept such another man as Mr. Melmotte out of his wife's drawing-room. Henrietta became redder than ever. Even Lady Carbury flushed up, as she remembered that Roger Carbury knew that she had taken her daughter to Madame Melmotte's ball. He thought of this himself as soon as the words were spoken, and then tried to make some half apology.
human
I don't approve of them in London, you know; but I think they are very much worse in the country.