ACT THREE, Scene 3 (EUNICE AND JAE-SAHN’S ARGUMENT):

INT. JAE-SAHN’S RESIDENCE, EARLY EVENING

(IT IS A HOT SUMMER DAY. EUNICE IS SEATED AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE DRINKING TEA WITH DESDEE. EUNICE’S CELL PHONE RINGS. SHE PICKS IT UP.)

Eunice: …I’ll be right there.

(EUNICE GOES TO THE DOOR, UNLOCKS AND UNCHAINS IT AND OPENS IT UP A CRACK. GABRIEL IS AT THE DOOR.)

Eunice: Hey now, good Gabriel. What is the latest news?

Gabriel: Madam, my former suit I do bid you to restore. That by your righteousness, I may come yet to exist and be a member. And with the office of my heart, I guarantee the honor. It would not be delayed, if such offense be of such mortal kind, to service not my past nor present sorrows.

Eunice: Alas, thrice gentle Gabriel, so help me, ev’ry spirit testify, as I have spoken all my best. You must be awhile patient. What I can do, I will, and for myself I dare let that suffice.

(EUNICE PATS HER HEAD WITH JAE-SAHN’S BANDANA AND IT INADVERTERTENTLY FALLS FROM HER HAND ONTO THE FLOOR. DESDEE STANDS UP.)

Desdee: Eunice, I miss you.

(EUNICE TURNS HER HEAD AROUND.)

Eunice: I’ll be right there.

(WHILE EUNICE IS NOT LOOKING, GABRIEL QUICKLY REACHES IN, GRABS THE BANDANA AND SHOVES IT INTO HIS POCKET.)

Eunice: Now, go now, go.

(EUNICE SHOOS GABRIEL AWAY. HE EXITS. EUNICE SHUTS THE DOOR AND LOCKS AND CHAINS IT. EUNICE RETURNS TO DESDEE AND THEY STAND BY THE PATIO DOOR.)

(EUNICE, SUDDENLY PANICKING, PATS HER POCKETS AND HER HEAD.)

Eunice: Have you seen Jae-Sahn’s bandana, Desdee? Believe me, I’d have rather lost my purse. I could have sworn I just had it. This is not good.

(EUNICE AND DESDEE LOOK AROUND FOR THE BANDANA.)

Desdee: Since when are you the one to invoke his wrath?

Eunice: You don’t know the half.

(EUNICE AND DESDEE PAUSE.)

Desdee: Alas, what does this gentleman conceive? Are you all right, Eunice?

Eunice: I’m burnt out and half asleep.

Desdee: What is the matter with our Jae-sahn, Eunice?

Eunice: If that an answer could supply to cope with this then I would settle so.

(THEY HEAR THE DOOR UNLOCK.)

Desdee: Here, take mine for now. In case he asks for it, it is the same color.

Jae-sahn (offstage): Eunice, unchain the door.

(DESDEE HANDS EUNICE HER GREEN BANDANA. EUNICE STUFFS IT INTO HER POCKET, THEN GOES TO UNCHAIN THE DOOR.)

Eunice: How have you been, jagiya?

(SHE LETS JAE-SAHN IN. HE PASSES BY HER, VISIBLY UPSET. DESDEE EXITS DISCREETLY TO THE PATIO TO GIVE THEM PRIVACY.)

Jae-sahn: Oh, how to disassemble? Well, my good lady, give me your hand.

(EUNICE GIVES JAE-SAHN HER RIGHT HAND.)

Jae-sahn: It is moist, give me the other one.

(EUNICE GIVES JAE-SAHN HER LEFT HAND.)

Jae-sahn: Lend me your bandana.

(EUNICE REACHES INTO HER POCKET AND GIVES JAE-SAHN DESDEE’S BANDANA.)

Eunice: Here you are, my fella.

(JAE-SAHN LOOKS AT IT BRIEFLY.)

Jae-sahn: Where is the one I gave you?

Eunice: I have it not about me.

Jae-sahn: Why not?

Eunice: I could not find it, dear.

Jae-sahn: Mak-jang! That was the first gift given me by a friend when I first came to this country. To lose it would be my perdition.

Eunice (sadly): Indeed? ‘Tis true? Then would to heaven I had seen it.

Jae-sahn: Just tell me where you put it last.

Eunice: Have mercy, please. It is not lost. But what then if it were?

(JAE-SAHN GLARES AT HER THEN EXITS THE RESIDENCE.)

(EUNICE IS ON THE VERGE OF TEARS. SHE SITS DOWN AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE AND HOLDS HER HEAD IN HER HANDS.)

[END SCENE.]