Rajiv: Maybe that’s the philosophy for philanthropists but do realize businessmen are made of a sterner stuff. I hope you would agree that I will find it hard to forgive you.
[Rajiv goes into the bedroom and lies on the bed.]
[Exit: Nayak leaving a perplexed Ramya.]
Ramya: Life becomes unimaginably confused when we think of ourselves but it becomes very simple when we think in terms of helping others. Oh, how beautifully said. Well, would Rajiv ever realize that?
[Curtains down.]
Scene – 3
[Curtains Up: A morose Rajiv and a concerned Ramya in their drawing room.]
Ramya: Since there is no word from Deva, maybe all is not lost.
Rajiv: My worry is not about Deva. I’m only wondering how to bring Sampath around.
Ramya: After all, it’s another day. Won’t a little give and take sort this out?
Rajiv: Do you want me to walk the halfway street all my life.
Ramya: What can be done when life bars one from its highways?
Rajiv: Why not take a detour to destiny?
Ramya: Its better that you stick to the road of contentment.
Rajiv: I’m sick and tired of you and your sermons. Won’t the so-called contented deride success from their rooftops of inadequacy. What hypocrisy, sour grapes. Scratch their surface and you will find layers of limitations. That’s why contentment is nothing but conceding ones’ limitations.
[Ramya answers an incoming call on her cell phone.]
Ramya: Hi Divya?
Divya (voice over): Are you at home.
Ramya: Very much, what’s the matter?
Divya (voice over): We’ve something to tell you.
Ramya: Missed your periods or what?
Divya (voice over): You know its no more do ya teenbut ek ya do.
Ramya: After gems of twins, you don’t need any more, do you?
[Switching off the phone, Ramya turns to Rajiv.]
Rajiv: So, my chela has snubbed Sampath. It would serve Nayak as well.
Ramya: Chela or not, Deva is a gem.
Rajiv: Why, you always side with him.
Ramya: Because I find him sensible.
Rajiv: Why not say he’s your contented classmate?
Ramya: So be it but why forget Divya. Are they any losers?
[Enter: Deva and Divya.]
Rajiv: Don’t you look buoyed?
Divya: Is it so? I thought I’ve taken it in my stride.
Rajiv: What’s up your sleeve anyway?
Deva: So to say, it’s no more than your leavings.
Rajiv: Why talk in circles?
Deva: It’s about Sampath’s offer.
Rajiv: Don’t you know I am not yet through with it?
Deva: But Nayak said you were not for it!