COINCIDENCE

  Characters

  Ron About 60; well built, smartly dressed, normally reserved but subject to occasional fits of violent temper.

  Arthur Around 30; jovial, waggish, once a junior colleague of Dennis.

  Betty Late 20s; Arthur's wife, an occupational nurse in the same firm. On comfortable teasing terms with Dennis.

  Dennis 65; newly-retired senior designer in an engineering firm; slight, bespectacled, inoffensive, fastidious, pedantic.

  Joan Betty's mother; middle 50s, sprightly, neat and chatty.

  Set

  A quiet corner in a pub with two tables, bench seats behind them and chairs to the side.

  Time

  The present

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