The scene – Eleanor’s spare room, which includes a double bed, some wardrobes and an awful lot of unwanted junk she’s yet to throw away.
Wilf - I needed to see you Margaret, there’s so much I have to say and none of it is easy.
Margaret - (tearful) Right, please go ahead.
W - Well, it’s Mr A, he’s gone. You’re sad, I can’t bear you like this.
M - It’s a consequence of his death and other things, you know me, an old stick in the mud, resisting change from all angles
W - I know Margaret and although I love you, but we can’t be together if your heart is elsewhere
M - Please don’t say that, I couldn’t bear it.
W - I hate to leave you Margaret at such a difficult time but we have to stay true to ourselves and part before one of us gets hurt
M - (grabbing the cushion) I keep seeing his face, his smile, his high-waisted trousers, even during my dreams
W - That is as may Margaret, but you never really knew him; you spent very little time together
M - That’s true, but we had a connection
W - That’s all very well but did you ever bicker about the price of Ginster’s Pasties during a routine trip to Asda? No, well that’s real life and your fling with him was pure fantasy.
M - (dramatically) Then leave me to my dreams and visions, they have no place in our fractured relationship
W - You mean, former relationship. It’s over, for good.
M - (throwing herself on the bed) Fine. Please go now. (dissolves into tears)
End of act one.
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