A CONVERSATION BETWEEN STRANGERS THAT LEADS NOWHERE, OR SOMEWHERE. EITHER WAY, THERE IS NOTHING TO BE DONE.
- I am much obliged to you, sir.
- I have done nothing.
- Yes. I am grateful.
- What do you want of me now?
- Nothing.
- Then I have already discharged my duty.
- Yes.
- I shall go.
- No, don't go. Not for me.
- It's not for you. I have things.
- That's OK then. I thought all was to be undone.
- No. All is fine.
- Then we must have been misled. The choice is not between all or nothing.
- I shall go.
- No. Don't you go too. You will negate my going.
- But where are you going?
- I have things.
- Oh yes... I have no things. You don't have my things?
- No. You have no things.
- Then I am depressed. Go!
- But now you have something.
- Oh yes. Depression. I am happy now... But now you have done something for me. Now I am unhappy.
- You are very changeable.
- Yes. If you would like a different me please select from one of my range of companions.
- I think I would like the woman you.
- Goodbye then. Take care of her. I am very dear to me.
- Shall we go, Miss?
- No, I am married. And you are very forward. We have no future.
- But we have past.
- Ben?
- No.
- Then you have lured me here under false pretences. We have but seconds of past. It is not enough to honour.
- How about now?
- No. And stop trying to take my honour.
- Today has taken a disquieting turn.
- Just wait until tomorrow.
- But I have things.
- Then attend to them.
- I shall, but I have left them elsewhere.
- And no doubt in time you should leave me too...
- Must we argue? Let us not to do the husband-and-wifely thing in public.
- Oh, how could you? I am undone! This argument ends this second!
- Then I concur.
- You do? You are a gentleman after all?
- I am not so disagreeable.
- I can see that now...
- What of your other senses?
- They keep a respectable distance.
- Then there is but little sense in any of this. I must go. I am going.
- But won't there be still less sense between us? You must stay.
- I have things...
- Oh, your things! But enough arguments, I shall argue only with my husband.
- With your husband? Such a relationship!
- I hadn't thought of it that way...
- What will you do then? Will you stay?
- If there is no sense in your leaving, then there is no more sense in mine. Unless--
- We leave together? An excellent idea – and with two of us at the task we can hardly fail.
- But your things?
- I think it is safe to say that things have changed now.
- Then we needn't go anywhere?
- No... No, indeed! And just as well, since this leaving is proving a deal more tricky than I could have imagined.
- Just imagine how it would be if there weren't the two of us!
- God, how I ever thought I could do it on my own...
- Nor I. Let us stay together.
- Yes. Let us stay together.
- I am much obliged, sir.
- I have done nothing.
- Yes. And sometimes that is more than enough.
And so, enough.
