[Exit: Deva and Divya followed by Ramya.]
[Rajiv goes to the backstage.]
Ramya (voice over): Sorry Deva, it’s just his pique at work and it would pass.
Deva (voice over): Ramya, let’s leave it at that. Good night.
Ramya (voice over): Good night Deva.
[Rajiv reappears with a Whisky bottle, a water bottle and a glass tumbler.]
[Rajiv begins to mix his drink.]
Divya (voice over): Ramya, see you tomorrow. Good night.
Ramya (voice over): Bye Divya.
[Enter: Ramya and walks past Rajiv.]
Rajiv: Isn’t it strange that you’re less concerned about your husband than about his friend?
Ramya: You don’t seem to know how insane you’ve become.
[Ramya goes into the bedroom and Rajiv continues to drink in the drawing room.]
[Curtains down.]
Scene - 4
[Curtains up: Rajiv and Ramya are in deep sleep in their bedroom.]
[The alarm clock strikes twelve times, Ramya gets up languidly and goes backstage. Shortly thereafter, she returns with a cup of coffee and goes up to Rajiv.]
Ramya [at the entrance to the bedroom]: Bed coffee, hot coffee for a hothead.
[As Rajiv doesn’t stir, Ramya keeps the coffee cup on a side table. She sits on the cot beside Rajiv.]
Ramya: Get up man.
[Rajiv doesn’t respond. Ramya prods at him and realizes he is dead.]
Ramya: Oh, how sad he has died before he could find his lost soul. But could he have redeemed it had he lived any longer? Unlikely, isn’t it? Its better he died than lived on to abuse my life more than ever.
[Ramya makes a few calls on her cell phone (mime). Then she clings on to Rajiv’s body and yells for Rangaiah.]
[Enter: Rangaiah.]
Ramya: See how he has orphaned me!
[Rangaiah feels Rajiv’s body and breaks down.]
Rangaiah: How sad, babu has died so young.
Ramya: Am I not worse off being widowed so young?
Rangaiah: Why so beti, won’t Deva babu take care of you?
Ramya: We’ll come to that later but let’s move the body out of my bedroom.
[Ramya and Rangaiah manage to lay the body in the drawing room. Rangaiah spreads a white bedspread over it.]
Rangaiah: Oh the poor master has lost his life and he won’t be raising from the dead either.
Ramya: Get lost; do you expect me to do a sati with him or what?
[Enter: Deva and Divya.]
[They rush towards Ramya. Divya takes Ramya into her arms. Ramya sinks into Divya’s lap and Deva caresses Ramya.]
Deva [to Ramya]: Oh the way he was cut up with both of us.