(Characters: Hugh, Julia
Setting: Backseat of a taxicab, circling the Hotel Casanova. Midnight.)
Hugh: An extraordinary evening.
Julia: Too gay for words.
Hugh: I’ve never.
Julia: I was wondering.
Hugh: Did it show.
Julia: You seemed to be enjoying yourself.
Hugh: You overachieve with one hand and understate with the other.
Julia: Playing it safe.
Hugh: And cool and quite commendable.
Julia: I am so glad to hear it.
Hugh: Yes now I can truly die a happy man.
Julia: It’s not just a once-in-a-lifetime deal unless you.
Hugh: Memories are baggage and I like to travel light.
Julia: So just the once then no repeat performance.
Hugh: I’ll change my mind you know I’ll change my mind.
Julia: I wouldn’t mind and I sure
wouldn’t tell.
Hugh: What’s it called incidentally.
Julia: What’s it called.
Hugh: Yes surely something so exquisite and evidently requiring an awful lot of diligent practice must have a name.
Julia: Well yes I suppose it does several in point of secret fact.
Hugh: What do you call it I mean you.
Julia: ‘The Feather Trimmer’.
Hugh: Feather trimmer as in.
Julia: An arrow an archer trims the feathers closest to the nude shaft on the assumption that the finer the trim the truer the flight.
Hugh: Yes a good name with just the right touch of of.
Julia: Obscurity.
Hugh: Playfulness I was going to say.
Julia: When I first began studying it was referred to as ‘Climbing the Master’s Pyramid’.
Hugh: Oh too arduous for what you.
Julia: Well thank you.
Hugh: Your balance of modesty and common sense is quite a change you know.
Julia: Life is short and.
Hugh: Such pleasures.
Julia: Are meant to be shared and yes I’m greedy as well as generous.
Hugh: I’m gratified.
Julia: And warned.