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== Synopses== In ''Table by the Window'', Martin, a once-rising politician now turned to drink, is dining with his ex-wife. Earlier he was sent to prison for beating her. She, having remarried, is now divorced a second time, and seeks a reconciliation with Martin. Miss Cooper, the manager of the hotel is his mistress. Still, after an off-stage confrontation with the ex-wife, Miss Cooper helps, with great generosity, to bring about a cautious reunion of the formerly married couple.<ref name=times/> In ''Table Number Seven'', Major Pollock tries to conceal from his fellow guests a report in the local newspaper of his sexual harassment of women at a local cinema. A repressed and hysterical young woman, under the thumb of her formidable mother, takes his side and falls in love with him. Again Miss Cooper encourages her guests to examine their feelings honestly and face their futures bravely.<ref name=times/> In an early draft of the play, Rattigan had Major Pollock's misdemeanour not as harassment of women but homosexual importuning;<ref>Glaister, Dan. "Rattigan and the curious case of the gay major", ''[[The Guardian]]'', 26 February 1998, p. 3</ref> the critic [[Kenneth Tynan]] commented at the time of the premiere that the version used then was "as good a handling of sexual abnormality as English playgoers will tolerate."<ref name=kt>Tynan, Kenneth. "Mixed Double", ''[[The Observer]]'', 26 September 1954, p. 11</ref> Tynan also wrote that both plays are about people who are driven by loneliness into a state of desperation.<ref name=kt/>
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