I hope so.
Armitage.
[Going R.] Well, I’ll finish my constitutional. I’ll look in again, Clement, in the hope that you will then be able to tell me how long this extremely uncomfortable state of affairs is to last.
[Exit Armitage, R., singing until he is well off.
Parbury.
Give me a cigarette, George.
[Gunning hands him a cigarette, then takes a cigarette himself. They both smoke. There is a short silence.
Parbury.
Not a stroke of work. It’s absurd!
[Throws cigarette on ground in a rage.