Synopsis
Absent Friends
Published by Samuel French Ltd
3 Male 3 Female
Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband is perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross marital emotional ties
By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation
He is the only happy one among them and his happiness and insensitive analyses of their troubles causes each of them to break down