TOM: As Shakespeare said, and I agree with him: ‘Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.’
ANGELA: I don’t think he meant ignore the fact that your lover got married.
A charming diplomat and his glamorous new wife ought to be happy. Angela’s first husband was a liar and a cheat; her second husband, on the other hand, clearly adores her. He says so, repeatedly, especially on Thursday evenings when he goes out to visit one of his clubs. The suspicions she begins to harbour are obviously based on her unfortunate first marriage, poor thing. But as her apparent neurosis takes hold, Juan resorts to illusion to maintain the delusion which results in a lot of confusion. If experience has taught Angela anything it’s the need to fight fire with fire, lies with more lies, and every last trick with pure magic…
