Lesson 24

MARIA : Are you asleep?
JOHN : Almost.
MARIA : So am I. We ought to go to bed.
JOHN : M-m.
MARIA :  I like being in London again.
JOHN : M-m?
MARIA : I like being in London. Don’t you?
JOHN : M-m. It’s all right.
MARIA : Don’t you like being here?
JOHN : M-m. I like it as a city. I wouldn’t want to live here.
MARIA : Anyway, let’s get to bed.
JOHN : M-m.

JOHN : I don’t think I’ve got the energy. (Telephone rings.) Oh, no!
MARIA : You answer it.
JOHN : Hello, oh, hello. M-m, well… M-m, good… M-m… of course… M-m, well, we can talk about that. I’ll see you tomorrow. Good night. Maria, wake up. We must go to bed.
MARIA : What’s the time?
JOHN : It’s eleven o’clock
MARIA : Is that all?
JOHN : Yes…
MARIA : I dreamt I was sitting on the beach and holding up an enormous shell to my ear and instead of the sound of the sea there was this noise m-m.
JOHN : I was on the telephone.
MARIA : Oh, yes. Who was it?
JOHN : Alistair Baird. He’s on the Board. Come on then. Oh, no! She’s asleep again.

1. Where is Maria and John?
2. What are they doing?
3. Would they both like to live in London again?
4. Why do you think Alistair Baird telephoned John?
5. What was Maria doing while John was talking with Alistair?
6. What made her think she was sitting on the beach?
7. Does Maria think that it’s late?
8. How does it come about that John and Alistair Baird know each other?