“Yes. Are you?”
“Yes. I’m going to see some friends at Ealing. Bus from Liverpool Street.”
“Oh, I go by tube to Oxford Circus. I’m seeing if they’ve got some music I ordered.”
“Don’t suppose they’ll have it ... very slack, these big London firms....”
Pause.
“Getting on all right?”
“Oh, fine, thanks.”
“I heard you’d got a place at the Royal Cinema.”
“Oh, I soon left that ... I’m on at the Victoria Theatre now. Much better job.”
“Good ... like the work, I suppose?”