HARRY: The boy wants some things in town for the show tonight. We’d better make tracks.

VIC: Come to the concert.

HARRY: Of course they will.

VIC: You’ll have a wonderful night.

HARRY: They’ll be there, won’t you?

JIM: We’ll be there.

VIC and HARRY go. Silence.

GWEN: If you want to ask me what I think or how I feel I couldn’t say.

JIM: I can guess.

GWEN: What do you think of me? You must hate me. Why do you still bother? I’m sorry… there are all these questions I want to ask. And not just you. Everybody.

JIM: Do you want to head off?

GWEN: Go home? No.

JIM: Do you feel all right?

GWEN: I feel… Give me a drink.

He gets her one.

I feel… No, I can’t say, I can’t tell you. Those two people… What am I trying to say?

JIM: Here’s your drink. Is your head aching?

GWEN: I’m not sure. What am I trying to say?

JIM: Don’t worry yourself.

GWEN: I have to. I have to worry myself. What is it I’m trying to say?

JIM: You’re over-tired.

GWEN: Don’t protect me. Tell me what I’m feeling.

JIM: Shocked?

GWEN: Yes…

JIM: Amazed, sad?

GWEN: Not those things. They’re so weak.

JIM: The girl would know. She’d hit the nail on the head.

She tries to take a Bex powder.

GWEN: I can’t take this powder. I can’t make it go in. I want to take it and it won’t go in. I’m going to be sick.

JIM: Give it to me.

GWEN: There’s a terrible taste in my mouth.

JIM: I’ll get rid of it. Relax.

GWEN: I’m sorry.

JIM: You should lie down.

GWEN: No. Let’s walk. Come on, down to the water. The water’s so warm.

They go.

SCENE TWO

TOM and MEG.

TOM: Give up?

MEG: Not yet.

TOM: You won’t guess.

MEG: I’ve seen her before.

TOM: Come on, give up.

MEG: No, I’ve seen her. I know her.

TOM: Then who is she?

MEG: Don’t tell me. I give up.

TOM: You give up?

MEG: Yes.

TOM: You can’t think who she is?

MEG: I give up.

TOM: Our headmaster’s wife.

MEG: Headmaster?

TOM: That’s right.

MEG: No.

TOM: Yes it is.

MEG: That’s incredible.

TOM: I knew who she was the second I saw her. No-one else knows. She’s a very good actress.

MEG: The headmaster’s wife.

TOM: That’s right. She’s run away. She left him in this luxury hotel on New Year’s Eve. Can you believe it? She hitched here.

MEG: Hitchhiked. And dressed like that?

TOM: Dressed like that.

MEG: Your parents don’t recognise her?