COINCIDENCE
   Characters
   Ron  About 60; well built, smartly dressed, normally reserved but subject to occasional fits of violent temper.
   Arthur  Around 30; jovial, waggish, once a junior colleague of Dennis.
   Betty  Late 20s; Arthur's wife, an occupational nurse in the same firm. On comfortable teasing terms with Dennis.
   Dennis  65; newly-retired senior designer in an engineering firm; slight, bespectacled, inoffensive, fastidious, pedantic.
   Joan  Betty's mother; middle 50s, sprightly, neat and chatty.
   Set
   A quiet corner in a pub with two tables, bench seats behind them and chairs to the side.
   Time
   The present