"I don't even know your name."
"That doesn't matter. We may get to names. After all, you came to my room without needing to know my name."
"That's true, but I thought there might be a little preliminary discussion, so to speak."
"Surely we know enough already. I'm a widower and you're a widow. I haven't had any sex for ten years and I suspect you haven't had any for a good while, too."
"Nothing like getting to the point. Well, all right, no, I haven't had any sex for eight years. Not since my husband got ill."
"We understood each other pretty quickly, downstairs, and there's no-one in this hotel to take note of us. We're quite free to do what we want."
"That's true. And since I came to your room you're assuming what I want is sex."
"It may not be just sex, I know. It may be simply human contact, sympathy, even companionship on this holiday we've both booked on."
"I came to your room because I was curious to find out why you asked me."
"That was brave of you. I might have wanted to rob you or rape you."
"I ruled those out. My instinct tells me you're a decent sort of man."
"Thank you. My instinct tells me that you're a passionate woman who's been pretty much starved of human contact, sympathy, companionship, including sex. And I'm in the same condition. Your intuition told you that. That's why you're here."
"My name is Jane. I want you to know that, whatever we do."
"My name is Jonathan, since names are important to you."
"Well, Jonathan, if I'm going to have sex with you I want to the know the name of the person I'm having the sex with."
"Jane, I very much want to have sex with you. You are a very attractive woman and I think we could click."
"You know, Jonathan, I have been so miserable that I would probably have come to your room if I knew you were going to rob or rape me. The last eight years and Guy's death have left me feeling almost nothing. I almost wished you would rape me. That might have made me feel something."
"Andrea's last years have done that to me, too. My idea was that sex with an attractive woman might bring me back to life a little."
"It looks like we might try it, then."
"You're smiling, so I take it you find the possibility appealing. In which case let's deal with the basics. First, I assume you're past the menopause? Good. Then I should tell you I have no sexual health problems. Andrea and I were faithful for over thirty years, so I'm clean."
