Conspiracy

– So you got through yesterday unscathed?
– Unscathed?
– By the annual celebration of practical jokes and tomfoolery.
– Of course. Yes, I can't say I noticed any. It was all very quiet.
– Suspiciously quiet?
– How do you mean?
– Some things can be just too quiet, you know. As if –
– Yes?
– Sorry, it's nothing...
– You were about to say –?
– No, nothing... It's just that –
– Yes?
– Sometimes you get the feeling, don't you, of things being plotted in the shadows: conspiracies; whisperings.
– By whom?
– That's the thing, isn't it? Who indeed are they?
– That's what I asked you. And conspiring about what? April's Fools pranks?
– If only it were that simple...
– Whereas it isn't?
– Who knows?
– You don't really seem to know that much about any of this.
– Sometimes these things are impenetrable.
– Yes. I'm finding that.