Navya: Why put unwelcome ideas into his head.
Naveen: Unwelcome to whom is the question. [He smiles heartily.] Wonder how the instincts of a woman as woman, and her constraints as wife contrast. Bye.
[Exit: Naveen as Navya and Nritya wave him good bye.]
Navya: Don’t take him seriously. There is no seven year itch yet even after fourteen years. He’s a lovely man.
Nritya: Why forget about your sweeties, Ranjan and Nritya. How I love to be with them. Tell me if your wanting me to be on my own is not a bahana.
Navya: Yes and no. Well, I don’t want any complications for you and me.
Nritya: What complications?
Navya: You are too young to visualize them.
Nritya: If only you care to tell me, I’m old enough to understand.
Navya: When the wife lets her sister stay in the house, her man takes it as a license from her to seduce his saali.
Nritya: Why it’s like fearing one’s own shadow.
Navya: You won’t say that when you are of my age.
Nritya: Well, that is all about the generation gap.
Navya: Okay baaba, you are jet age type and I am of bullock cart class.
Nritya: Whatever, you are sweet and still cute.
Navya: You know how worried I was about your taking up a job. But I’m relieved after getting acquainted with Rekha. She works in the firm that you are going to join.
Nritya: Whether she would be of help to me or not, I am glad that you are feeling easy.
Navya: After retiring in two months, she’s planning to be a social activist against sexual harassment at workplace. She wants to take me on board as well.
Nritya: Why not.
Navya: I am also inclined but before that I have a lot of ground to cover.
Nritya: AkkaI am famished so to say.
Navya: Don’t I know one can hardly eat that railway stuff.
[The clock chimes twelve times and Navya and Nritya go into the kitchen portion only to reenter the drawing room after lunch.]
Nritya: Now I think your cooking is better than mummy’s.
Navya: Well, after all these years, she must have got tired of it all.
Nritya: [Yawns] I didn’t have a wink on the train.
Navya: That’s what happens when you get a berth near the exit.
[Nritya goes into the guestroom and Navya begins reading the spiral bound volume that Rekha gave her. At length, the clock (not in the scene) chimes four times. Nritya comes out from the guest room and joins Navya.]