JULIA: Earlier you’ve never had “business meetings”. Now practically every time you have a “business meeting”!
MICHAEL: Earlier, I didn’t have such difficult and important situations, as I do now…I have more responsibility… Now let’s move on to our “business”.
JULIA: Now you talk about “our business”…earlier you called it different.
Michael tries to hug Julia. Julia pushes him away
MICHAEL (surprised): Hold up! What is this?
JULIA: Don’t touch me… Do you remember the “Sacred Trip” you talked about right as we walked off the TV set?
MICHAEL: I didn’t really know what I meant by “A Sacred Trip”… Just wanted to get the sex going…
JULIA: We giggled together while we scrubbed the make up off… You stuffed the roses the show host gave us in your vest pocket and we went for coffee with Ann and Tom.
MICHAEL: I remember how long we had to talk and moon at the restaurant before they decided it was time to go.
JULIA: Our journey started as we flouted from the sofa to your bed…
MICHAEL: I was floating….drifting… to you…
(Pause)
JULIA: Me too. (Beat) Now it’s turned into an obligation… We never sit on the sofa…You never light candles. Right to bed… Our trip lasts only fifteen minutes.
MICHAEL: Julia, that’s a terrible way to talk! We are fine together.
JULIA (cynically): You’re fine!
MICHAEL: You don’t get any kind of pleasure?…Some..?
JULIA: Cosmic flood?… Ecstasy?… Vibrations?… Needling Sensation?…Well….
MICHAEL: Well…what more can I do?
JULIA: Value me more… Why don’t you ring the ships bell anymore?
MICHAEL: I will ring it… on my own yacht…
JULIA: Yacht!… Where…?
MICHAEL: Soon we will really be floating on the waves. I’ve always dreamed of sleeping on a boat…
JULIA: Where is the money… for this yacht?
MICHAEL: I’m saving for it!
JULIA (exasperated): You have no house, and you are saving for a floating palace!
MICHAEL: Why do I need a house?
JULIA: Don’t you want a family? Children?
MICHAEL: I don’t want all that… until…
JULIA: Until what? Michael, how old are you?
MICHAEL: Thirty.
JULIA: I’m thirty-three. I’m a woman…
MICHAEL: I see…
JULIA: You don’t see any thing! I want my own home… I want…ch…
MICHAEL: I didn’t know…
JULIA: When I hint about “home and hearth” you always change the subject…
MICHAEL: I just never understood your gist.
JULIA: Remember when we went to the zoo? There were those little baby monkeys. They had such cute expressions. They were so inquisitive and had such pleasure… Rolling around with each other. Hugging their mother….They even seemed to look at me with devotion…love…
