What can we learn from the conversation?

W: How’s your jogging coming along?
M: Perfect. I jog every day now except when it rains. How’re things with you?
W: Very well. Can you see I’ve lost several pounds?

W: Do you know? Tom failed to win that speech contest.
M: Did he? I thought for sure he would. He worked so hard on it.
W: Perhaps that’s why he lost. They thought he was simply reciting.