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(Harry enters. Margaret is sitting by the window.)

Margaret: Is that you? You're early.

Harry: No. Just delivering. A fare.

Margaret: To here?

Harry: Yeah. Two women.

Margaret: Oh. Strangers?

Harry: I... uh... I found this?

Margaret: What? What's in the bag?

Harry: It fell down.

Margaret: It what?

Harry: It fell. From the sky. Or from... from one of the flats. Just outside. Nearly hit one of the... one of the passengers.

Margaret: Let me see. What is it?

Harry: It's broken. I thought you could, you know -

Margaret: It's just come apart. Fallen apart.

Harry: I think it's some kind of...

Margaret: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...

Harry: Some kind of puzzle. Like a shape, make a shape. Maybe you could...

Margaret: Shhh. I'm counting.

Harry: Right.

(Margaret counts to herself. Harry watches her.)

Margaret: ... Eighteen, nineteen, twenty. Did you get them all?

Harry: I know you like jigsaws, so I thought -

Margaret: You didn't miss any?

Harry: That was all. All I could find.

Margaret: Maybe I could mend it. I could put it back together.

Harry: Uh... I was thinking that.

Margaret: So pretty, isn't it. See, Harry? The colours, sparkling.

Harry: Sure. It's... it's lovely.

Margaret: Twenty pieces.



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