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ROLAND Our weekly meeting again?
ROBIN You have been warned – by the boss. Sometimes I think my mind is going.
ROLAND I shouldn't worry too much about that – you haven't got one!
ROBIN I have the most frightful dreams. Last night I dreamed of wandering through a field of cowslips and the scent was heavenly. It grew dark; a woman clouted me behind the knees and made me drop to the ground because she had severed my muscles with a sharp axe; she said I ought to have known they were primroses. I asked where she had learned her classics, but she threatened another stroke with the axe. She said I ought to have known it was botany – not classics. What was classics? What was botany? That's just what I said. Didn't she know it was zoology, I wanted to ask, but she sliced off my left side with a limb I think. She seemed very absent minded.
ROLAND You've got Rosemary on the brain – sharp but not very sensitive. Sh! Here she is!
ROSEMARY What are you talking about?
ROLAND Robin was mentioning that he wasn't sleeping very well. I wondered if he was having bad dreams.
ROBIN I didn't remember any.
ROSEMARY Perhaps they weren't dreams. My dog sometimes yelps and his paws twitch as if he were having a dream – chasing rabbits perhaps. Do you think dogs dream?
ROLAND Of course they do.