—Not when he loses, Christina. It’s when this who he thinks he is loses, what the whole thing’s all about isn’t it? He goes off on a frolic of his own writes a play and expects the world to roll out the carpet for . . .

—A frolic! Where in God’s name did you get that, I mean have you ever seen anyone more deadly serious than . . .

—Just a phrase, comes up sometimes in cases of imputed negligence, the servant gets injured or injures somebody else on the job when he’s not doing what he’s hired for, not performing any duty owing to the master, voluntarily undertakes some activity outside the scope of his employment like . . .

—Harry?

—Like an office worker puts out an eye shooting paperclips with a rubberband they say he’s on a frolic of his own, no intention of advancing his employer’s business his employer’s not liable, there may be a case if the employer knew about this horseplay and hadn’t tried to . . .

—Harry! My God I’m not talking about shooting paperclips, I mean can’t you say anything without writing a whole legal brief to go with it? and a swallow from her glass broke her off coughing —he, he spent a year, two years writing it and . . .