Rajiv: Well, she let him have her eldest one and he had the other two on his own.
Raju: Isn’t it an exploitation of the meanest kind!
Rajiv: Why, it’s life’s reality of the ironic kind. Logically seen, it’s very sound, but sentimentally approached, it’s all fury. Whatever, can’t you visualize the parallel?
Raju: I do see but as you know I won’t approve of it.
Rajiv: So be it. By the way, who’s the guy we were talking about?
Raju: He’s Sampath one of my valued clients.
Rajiv: What’s his background like?
Raju: Why bother about that when you are averse to my proposal?
Rajiv: How do you know he won’t be interested in my proposal?
Raju: Well who knows, ask Nayak who also happens to be his lawyer.
Rajiv: Whatever, don’t lose track of my application.
Raju: Don’t I owe it to my clients to pursue their cases. Now it’s time I attended to Rani’s errand. I will see your wife sometime later.
Ramya (voice over): Why don’t you come in Divya?
Divya (voice over): No, Ramya, Deva would have reached home by now. See you tomorrow, bye.
Ramya (voice over): Bye.
[Enter: Ramya.]
Ramya: Hi Raju garu, how is Rani?
Raju: She’s fine at my account and expense that is.
Ramya: Oh, all you men! Are you not worse for it when it comes to portraying the better-half as the worst-half?
Rajiv: But with the honourable exception of His Exalted Obedience.
Raju: Well, Her Exalted Eminence would be waiting for me, good night.
Ramya: Tell her Divya and I will soon catch up with her. Good night.
Rajiv: Good night.
[Exit: Raju as Rajiv sees him off. Ramya goes into the bedroom.]
[Curtains down.]
Scene - 2
[Curtains Up: The Rajivs’ drawing room and the adjacent bedroom.]
[Enter: An excited Rajiv into the drawing room yelling for Ramya. He drops his briefcase on the sofa and goes into the bedroom in search of her. Not finding her there, he goes backstage, yelling for her.]
Ramya (voice over): Why, what’s wrong with you?
Rajiv (voice over): That’s the problem with you middle-aged women.
Ramya (voice over): Okay baba, what has turned my old boy into a horny lad now? [Pause] Rajiv, don’t be mad.
[Rajiv, carrying a demure Ramya in his hands, comes out of the backstage and goes into the bedroom. He drops her in the bed and then draws her towards himself.]
Ramya: Wait until dark.
Rajiv: Is not sex the physical manifestation of emotional expression? Why, it’s the barrier-less bearer of man’s inner impulses.