Pause.
Anyway, what’s all this about you and Casey?
EMMA What do you mean?
JERRY What’s going on?
EMMA We have the occasional drink.
JERRY I thought you didn’t admire his work.
EMMA I’ve changed. Or his work has changed. Are you jealous?
JERRY Of what?
Pause.
I couldn’t be jealous of Casey. I’m his agent. I advised him about his divorce. I read all his first drafts. I persuaded your husband to publish his first novel. I escort him to Oxford to speak at the Union. He’s my . . . he’s my boy. I discovered him when he was a poet, and that’s a bloody long time ago now.
Pause.
He’s even taken me down to Southampton to meet his Mum and Dad. I couldn’t be jealous of Casey. Anyway it’s not as if we’re having an affair now, is it? We haven’t seen each other for years. Really, I’m very happy if you’re happy.
Pause.
What about Robert?
Pause.
EMMA Well . . . I think we’re going to separate.
JERRY Oh?
EMMA We had a long talk . . . last night.
JERRY Last night?
EMMA You know what I found out . . . last night? He’s betrayed me for years. He’s had . . . other women for years.
JERRY No? Good Lord.
Pause.
But we betrayed him for years.
EMMA And he betrayed me for years.
JERRY Well I never knew that.
EMMA Nor did I.
Pause.
JERRY Does Casey know about this?
EMMA I wish you wouldn’t keep calling him Casey. His name is Roger.
JERRY Yes. Roger.
EMMA I phoned you. I don’t know why.
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