ISOBEL. There was a dog, wasn’t there?
ROYCE. How well you remember. Rags. A fox terrier.
ISOBEL (doubtfully). Yes?
ROYCE. Or was that later? I had an Aberdeen before that.
ISOBEL. Yes, that was it, I think.
ROYCE. Thomas.
ISOBEL (smiling). Thomas. Yes.... Only eighteen little years ago. But what worlds away. Just give me that tune again. (He gives it to her, and the memories stir again.) You had a pipe you were very proud of—with a cracked bowl—and a silver band to keep it together. What silly things one remembers ... you’d forgotten it.
ROYCE. I remember that pink cotton dress.
ISOBEL. Eighty years ago. Or is it only eighteen? [202]And now we meet again. You married? I seem to remember hearing.
ROYCE (uncomfortably). Yes.