("Sheila and Gerald seated upstage")

("Very pleased with life and rather excited")

"Mummy", "Daddy"

"Isn't it a beauty?"

"oh - how horrible!"

"What was she like? Quite young?"
"Pretty?"

(cutting in)"Why would you? He's finished with you'

"I think it was a mean thing to do"

"but these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people!"

"I felt rotten about it at the time"
"I've

"She was a very pretty girl too"

"You gave yourself away as soon as he mentioned her other name"

"Then i'm staying'