Navya: [Holding the sketch book] I take objection to this.
Sanjay: I don’t blame you for that but you won’t be complaining if only you model in nude. How else can I do justice to your figure?
[Navya slowly but deliberately begins to slide her pallu.Sanjay looks at her bulging blouse in heightened anticipation and she holds it back coquettishly. Sanjay goes nearer to her and Navya, feigning to protect her self, puts her hand into her blouse. [She presses the button to stop the recording and then another to start rewinding the tape in the audience view]. Sanjay looks in wonderment as Navya drops her palluexposing her valley to him.]
Sanjay: What a valley!
Navya: Of your fall.
[Navya pulls out a pocket tape recorder from within her blouse. As Sanjay stands stunned, Navya pulls her pallu back over her blouse. Recovering himself, Sanajy tries to grab the tape recorder from her hand. Navya pushes Sanjay with all her strength and he falls on the floor. Navya plays the tape recorder. Sanjay gets up from the floor and attempts to grab it from her. She runs out of the place leaving him stunned and worried. Curtains down.]
Scene – 9
[Curtains up: Split setting of the office of Skins & Hides Ltd. Cabin of the Finance Manager on the left and the Finance Department on the right. Diwakar is in the cabin with Rachana. Kumar sits in the office portion. Rachana comes out of the cabin and takes her seat at the adjacent table to Kumar’s. The clock (not in the scene) strikes four.
Rachana: How I wish every boss is like our boss.
Kumar: May I know what you saw in him that we failed to see all these years.
Rachana: He doesn’t misbehave with women.
Kumar: What a simpleton you are.
Rachana: It’s no flattering.
Kumar: I think its early days for that [He smiles.]
Rachana: [Though pleased, she tries to hide her feelings.]
Kumar: Once I overheard a conversation between an old woman and a young girl. Well, they were egg vendors at our hostel mess. When the young thing said that boys misbehave with her, the oldie averred they were all nice to her. [Laughs]
Rachana: It’s insulting.
Kumar: What if I say you are terrific.
Rachana: Won’t I complain of harassment?
Kumar: That’s what Deepti did when the boss lost his eyes for her. But the only difference was she carried the complaint to his wife and that was that. Well, he acquired the look of a castrated bull after that. Deepti resigned having had her last laugh but his wife got a couple of surveillance cameras installed in his cabin. I suppose to be doubly sure.