I give thanks. I wonder if their sensors pick that up. I wonder if the monitor registers an unfortunate rise in temperature. I extend these fingers. In this white room it is difficult not to think of bodies.

Characters:  ED & JOANNE, a mid-western couple.
                    ART & ELLEN, a somewhat older, more sophisticated couple.
Setting:        A hot empty beach on an island in the Pacific.
Time:           Shortly before sunset.

  [ARTHUR, in shirt, shorts, sun hat and dark glasses, stands in the shade of a palm. ED, in swim suit, faces him. Enter ELLEN in bikini.]