They could barely relate to each other. Unpolished as is the human way when observed dispassionately, but like humans they tried to seem certain. Thinking they could carry out their plans, manipulate and get their own way. Their eye contact had become forced and staged; their smiles of acknowledgement were masking estrangement. When the woman choked on the hard part of a tomato; they were forced into immediate action; one of them applied the Heimlich manoeuvre while the other called the emergency services. We do not have to get on to compliment each other perfectly