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（英会話リスニングスクリプト）
He had got his ticket at the last moment,
so he had not been able to choose his seat.
He now found that he was in the middle of
a group of American ladies, some of them middle-aged and
some quite old.
They obviously all know each other well,
as, before the curtain went up on the play they had come
to see they all talked and joked a lot together.
The lady sitting on Mr Brown's left, who
was about sixty years old, seemed to be the happiest and
the most amusing of the America group, and after the first
act of the play, she apologized to him for the noisiness
of her friends.
He answered that he was very glad to see
the American ladies so obviously enjoying their trip to
England, and so they got into a conversation.
Mr Brown's neighbour explained what they
were all doing there.
"You know, I have known these ladies
all my life," she said.
"We all grew up together back in our
home town in the United States.
They have all lost their husbands, and call
themselves the Merry Widows.
It's a sort of club you know. They always
go everywhere together.
I have wanted to join their club for a
long time, but I didn't qualify for membership until the
spring of this year."
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