====== English Teaching Theatre - Unit 05 - Gussett and Rose ======


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<poem>
**Scene** A street

**Characters Two Englishmen**: Albert Gussett and Harold Rose
The two men pass in the street.

**Rose** Goodness me!

**Gussett** Well I never!

**Rose	**Herbert Bishop!

**Gussett	**Arthur Trigwell!

**Rose** No...Actually my name’s Harold Rose. 

**Gussett** I’m Albert Gussett, as a matter of fact.

**Rose** Albert Gussett. Of course.

**Gussett** And you’re Harold Rose. Of course you are.

**Rose** Well I never!

**Gussett** Goodness me!

//They hesitate for a moment.//

**Rose** Well, how are you, then?

**Gussett** Fine, fine. How’s Alice?

**Rose** Alice?

**Gussett** Yes, Alice. Your wife’s name's Alice, isn't it?

**Rose	**No,	no... Gloria,	actually.

**Gussett	**Oh,	yes. Gloria	Trigwell.

**Rose	**Er...	Rose.

**Gussett** Rose Trigwell?

**Rose** No. Gloria Rose.

**Gussett** Gloria Rose. Of course. How is she?

**Rose** She’s very well. How’s...er...

**Gussett** Doris?

**Rose** Yes, Doris, your wife. How is she?

**Gussett** Oh, she's very well -Rose Good, good.

**Gussett** - but she isn’t my wife.

**Rose	**No?

**Gussett** I'm not married.

**Rose** Oh.

**Gussett	**Doris is my sister.

**Rose	**Oh, yes.

//They hesitate again for a moment.//

**Rose** Well, it is a small world, isn’t it, Herbert?

**Gussett** Albert.

**Rose** Albert, yes. It seems like yesterday -Gussett Yes, it certainly does...

**Rose** - when we were at that awful school together.

**Gussett** School?

**Rose	**Yes. Doesn’t time fly?

**Gussett	**We weren’t at school together.

**Rose** Do you remember that awful English teacher with black teeth? Gussett We weren’t at school together.

**Rose	**Weren’t we?

**Gussett** No, we were in the Army together.

**Rose	**We weren’t.

**Gussett	**Weren’t we?

**Rose	**I was in the Navy.

**Gussett	**Oh.

//They hesitate again for a moment//.

**Rose	**Er...Albert, I mean Herbert -

**Gussett** No, no, Albert’s my name.

**Rose** Er, yes... Albert, how do we know each other?

**Gussett** I was just wondering about that myself, er...

**Rose	**Harold.

**Gussett** Yes, Harold. Er...Are you an architect?

**Rose** Yes! Are you an architect?

**Gussett	**No, I'm a taxi-driver.

**Rose	**Oh.

//They hesitate again//.

**Gussett** Are you interested in boxing?

**Rose	**No, not at all.

**Gussett	**Ah.

**Rose** Do you go to the theatre?

**Gussett** I went once - about twenty years ago.

**Rose	**I see.

**Gussett** Do you take your holidays in Brighton?

**Rose	**No, never.

**Gussett	**Mmm.

**Rose	**Do you play golf?

**Gussett	**No, I don’t.

**Rose** Well, that’s not it then.

//They hesitate again//.

**Rose** Do you know, Albert, I don’t think we’ve met before. 

**Gussett	**No, you’re right. We	haven’t.

**Rose	**Well, er...l’m Harold	Rose.

**Gussett** And I'm Albert Gussett.

**Rose	**How do you do?

**Gussett	**How do you do?

//They shake hands//.

</poem> 

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