- [first lines]
- Lionel: I think I'm getting a bunion.
- Jean: That's not a very auspicious start to the day.
- Lionel: I've never had a bunion before. I've had corns; I've never had a bunion.
- Jean: I can recommend a very good chiropodist.
- Lionel: Can you? Were you you mean you have...
- Jean: This coffee's delicious.
- [last lines]
- Jean: There we were, and here we are now, with a great big gap of thirty-eight years in between. Sometimes it's as though we've never been apart, but at other times it seems that we never knew each other, that we were just complete strangers. I wonder what'll happen to us. Have you any ideas on the subject?
- [turns round to find Lionel has fallen asleep]
- Jean: Lionel?
- [sits down beside him]
- Jean: Lionel?
- [kisses his cheek and lies against him]
- Jean: My hero.