That's All by Harold Pinter

MRS. A: I always put the kettle on about that time.

MRS. B: Yes [pause]

MRS. A: Then she comes around.

MRS. B Yes. [pause[

MRS. A: Only on Thursdays.

MRS. B: Yes. [pause]

MRS. A: On Wednesday I used to put it on. When she used to come round. Then she changed it to Thursdays.

MRS. B: Oh yes.

MRS. A: After she moved. When she used to live round the corner, then she always came in on Wednesdays, but then when she moved she used to come down to the butcher’s on Thursdays. She couldn’t find a butcher up there.

MRS. B: No.

MRS. A: Anyway, she decided to stick to her own butcher. Well, I thought, if she can’t find a butcher, that’s the best thing.

MRS. B: Yes [pause]

MRS. A: So she stated to come down on Thursdays. I didn’t know she was coming down on Thursdays until one day I met her in the butcher.

MRS. B: Oh yes.

MRS. A: It wasn’t my day for the butcher. I don’t go to the butcher on Thursday.

MRS. B: No, I know [pause]

MRS. A: I go on Friday.

MRS. B: Yes [pause]

MRS. A: That’s when I see you.

MRS. B: Yes [pause]

MRS. A: You’re always there on Fridays.

MRS. B: Oh yes. [pause]

MRS. A: but I happened to go in for a bit of meat, it turned out to be a Thursday. I wasn’t going in for my usual weekly on Friday. I just slipped in, the day before.

MRS.B: Yes

MRS. A: That was the first time I found out she couldn’t find a butcher up there, so she decided to come back here, once a week, to her own butcher.

MRS. B: Yes.

MRS. A: She came on Thursday so she’d be able to get meat for the weekend. Lasted her till Monday, then from Monday to Thursday they’d have fish. She can always buy cold meat, if they want a change.

MRS. B: Oh yes. [pause]

MRS. A: So I told her to come in when she came down after she’d been to the butcher’s and I’d put a kettle on. So she did [pause]

MRS. B: Yes [pause]

MRS. A: It was funny because she always used to come in Wednesdays. [pause] Still, it made a long break [long pause]

MRS. B: She doesn’t come in no more, does she? [pause]

MRS. A: She comes in. She just doesn’t come in so much, but she comes in. [Pause]

MRS. B: I thought she didn’t come in. [pause]

MRS. A: She comes in. [pause] She just doesn’t come in so much. That’s all.