Ramya: Deva can understand, calm down dear.
[Ramya leads Rajiv into the bedroom.]
[Rau and Slesha engage Deva (mime) as Divya looks on.]
Ramya: Don’t make it worse for them with your confession. I’ve seen to it that
Divya has kept it to herself. All this drama is Rau’s idea to shake you up from your slumber of success.
Rajiv: Oh, how he made me even humbler than ever.
[Rajiv and Ramya join the others in the drawing room. Rajiv goes to Rau and Slesha to hold their hands in gratitude and then turns to Deva.]
Rajiv: Deva please help me treat the Sampath episode as a bad dream.
Deva: Let bygones be bygones. You may deal with him whichever way you choose.
Rajiv: No Deva, don’t I know now how treacherous success is? Oh, how it changes its goal post whenever one is at a striking distance from it. I envy you for wanting to quit the rat race before it could ruin your life.
Rau: Why blame success when the fault lies in the way we approach it. Haven’t you heard Emerson’s success quote that’s a hit on the net?
Rajiv: No, what is that?
Rau: Among other things, he feels that to know even one life has breathed easier because you’ve lived is to have succeeded.
Ramya: Oh, to hear it said itself feels so nice.
Slesha: I’m proud to say he has tasted success many times over.
Rau: Thank you for your high praise. But that’s beside the point I am making. I suggest that Rajiv and Deva join hands with Sampath to help build that fledgling unit to contribute to our country’s economy. It’s not about the generation of wealth that one should be skeptical about. It is the way the rich spend money that should bother the sane minded. For instance, it’s one thing to build bigger and better workplaces and another to do the same for personal ostentation.
Deva [to Rajiv]: What do you say now?
Rajiv: Still I would leave Mr. Sampath to your care. With Ramya, I would like to find our way for personal fulfillment through social enrichment.
Rau: Best of luck to all of you.
Ramya [to Rajiv]: I’m happy you’ve realized humility is the essence of life.
Rajiv: And that wife is the scent of it.
Raju: Why not, if a man is upright in this topsy-turvy world, much of the credit for that should go to his wife.
Rajiv: On that note, let it be my privilege to propose vote of thanks to the good Samaritans, my eminent friend Rau and his worthy spouse Slesha for the beneficial roles played by them in the drama of my chequered life.