CLEMENS: I know; you pointed her out to me in the picture
gallery. She stood on a ladder and copied. And that
fallow with the Polish name -
MARGAOET: (Begins) Svkd..
CLEMENS: Don't trouble yourself - it is no longer
necessary. He read something about in the café, once when
I was there, without the least embarrassment,
MARGARET: He is very talented, you may believe me.
CLMENS: Naturalty - they are alliesnted at the café.
And then that cad, that unbearable...
MARGARET: who?
CLEMENS: You know whom I mean. He always made tactless
remparks about theglstocracy.
MARGARET: Gilbert - you must mean Gilbert.
CLEMUNS: Yes. I can’t defend all of my class; there are
rascals everywhere, even among writers, I have been told - but
it certainly is rude when one of us is present...
MARGARET: He was that sort.
CLLANENS: In those days I had to pull myself together
not to become coarse.
MARGAJENT: He was interesting for all that... and it
happened that he was very ucalous of you.
CLBENS: Prem all I could observe, that is not hand to
believe.