sentences:  The second play, "Table Number Seven", is set about 18 months after the events of the previous play, and deals with the touching friendship between a repressed spinster and Major Pollock, a kindly but bogus man posing as an upper-class retired army officer.The two main roles in both plays are written to be played by the same performers.The secondary characters – permanent residents, the hotel's manager, and members of the staff – appear in both plays.