[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.