[There is a pause.
Ann: Were you in your constituency yesterday?
Philip: Yes.
Ann: Did you make a speech? Was it a good meeting?
Philip: Fairly.
[There is another pause. Ann is crying silently.
Philip: What the devil is the matter now?
Ann: I don’t understand.
Philip: So you have already observed.
Ann: It’s dreadful. Why, we can’t even talk any more.