Pinter in his plays talks about the pursuit of men and the lack of communication between people who are in a different level of consciousness. The two one-act plays, 'A Slight Ache' and 'The Collection', are two dramas of conjugal infidelity. In the first one act play we see the corroded life of a couple. The two heroes soliloquize in front of a token participant, which rarely reacts in their words. The dialogues seem to bridge a conversation, in essence though, it reveals it inexistence. In the second one act play we see the relationship of two peculiar couples getting complicated because of suspicions of an infidelity. Here again what weighs more is the problem of understanding through a smouldering aggressiveness that they neither dare express nor hide it.