Harriet is doing homework alone in the common room while listening to music. Tom enters and sits across from her, wanting to talk. Harriet ignores him. Tom pleads for Harriet to talk to him and sort things out, but she continues ignoring him. Tom gets frustrated and leaves, but Harriet calls out to him as he's leaving. Tom sits back down and apologizes. Harriet says it's fine but that she doesn't want to talk about it now. Tom agrees to talk later and leaves.

1. SCENE: INTERIOR,DAY
Harriet is satin the common roomby herself listening to her musicand doing homework.Tomwalks
into thecommon roomand sits oppositeher.There are bookson thetable and sheetsof paper.
Tom
Harriet? Can we talk?
Harriet doesn’t respond or look up. There is no reaction from her at all. She keeps doing her work in
silence listening to music.
Tom
Harriet? Talk to me, don’t ignore me…We need to sort this out
Harriet looks up and still doesn’t reply, she ignores him as though he isn’t there.
Tom
Fine then. Don’t. If you’re going to be like that then don’t bother.
Tom gets off his chair to leave the room as Harriet starts talking
Harriet
What do you want?
Tom sits back down
Tom
I’m sorry for what happened. I didn’t mean it
Harriet
It’s fine. Just leave it. I’m not in the mood to talk about it at the moment.
Tom
Okay, call me later when you want to talk, I need to go home.
Tom gets up and leaves the room. Harriet goes back to doing her homework with her music in.