CATHERINE: Samantha Roth is only thirty.
RUTH: (1) Is she? I thought she was thirty-three.
CATHERINE: Samantha's birthday was last Thursday.
RUTH: (2) Was it? I thought it was last month.
CATHERINE: The Roths' house is worth six hundred thousand.
RUTH: (3) Is it? I thought it was worth three hundred thousand.
CATHERINE: Ross Roth is the author of a book about moths.
RUTH: (4) Is he? I thought he was a mathematician.
CATHERINE: I'm so thirsty.
RUTH: (5) Are you? I thought you drank something at the Roth's.
CATHERINE: No. Samantha gave me nothing to drink.
RUTH: (6) Shall I buy you a drink?
CATHERINE: Thank you.
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