(Ray Livingston has come in on this, walking slowly down with eyes that glitter for a moment on seeing them.

He is about sixty. The tightly drawn skin on his face clearly reveals the bones beneath. He is an aristocratic, calm, collected man: the essence of deliberate politeness. When he comes to them he acts as though he were surprised.)

Livingston

Bess. This is a surprise.

Bess

Ray?

Livingston

Do you come here often?

Bess