Philip: It’s my platform training.

Ann: You’re so strange to-day—is anything the matter?

Philip: Nothing and everything.

Ann: Are you angry with me?

Philip: No.

Ann: I am sorry if I was snappy.

[There is a pause.

Ann: In twenty minutes Ninian will be back from the station, the dressing-gong will ring, and I shall have to leave you. Oh, I wish there weren’t a clock in my heart telling me that time is running away.

Philip: It is half-past seven now.