DOCTOR: (with some interest.) Nude beaches!
ANNA: There’re lots of them.
DOCTOR: Oh?…
ANNA: Is it important?
DOCTOR: No, it’s not important… For instance?
ANNA: I remember only – on Martha’s Vineyard and on the island of St. Martin. Unfortunately, I can’t remember others.
DOCTOR: (With more and more interest) So? Go on…
ANNA: So, we were sitting and talking. I was going to invite him to the table when he suddenly got up and said: «I’ll leave you for five minutes to have a smoke». I said to him: «Joe, you may smoke in here,». And he replied: “I can’t smoke in your the room. It’ll take me exactly five minutes». And he went out. He left and came back in five minutes. And then he suddenly rushed out of my house and ran across the street to his own house and since then I can’t go out into the street.
DOCTOR:(with wonder.) I can’t understand what happened to your neighbor?
ANNA: Happened to me, not to him. But, please, don’t laugh at me.
DOCTOR: I won’t laugh.
ANNA: The point is when Joe was going out to have a smoke he cast a long and significant glance at me as if he wanted to explain something. I trembled with excitement. And it was then that my inner voice said: «Strip off your clothes». It said this so distinctly and clearly as I’m speaking to you now. Then repeated insistently, in the form of an order: «Be quick, off with clothes, he’ll soon come back». I decided to cover my body with a sheet, but the voice said: «Risk it, take the sheet away». Then, when I took it away, it said: «Lie down on the sofa and look as if you were lying on a nude beach».
DOCTOR: Your pose?
ANNA (demonstrating): I simply put my hands behind my head…
DOCTOR: Why?
ANNA (looking at doctor): You don’t understand? I wanted to show my breasts to advantage…
DOCTOR(with more interest.): I see…Show me, please, your pose.
Anna puts her hands behind her head. Doctor reacts.
ANNA: My inner voice ordered me to do it.
DOCTOR: I see… and what did your inner voice say when the neighbor rushed out of the room?
ANNA: Used foul language.
DOCTOR: What did it say?
ANNA: I can’t repeat.
DOCTOR: Don’t repeat all the words.
ANNA: It said: «Hey, you, ninny, so-and-so… Now the whole street will know…». And now I can’t go in the street in daylight.
DOCTOR: Your voice didn’t explain anything to you?
ANNA: Nothing. Now I can’t walk on my street.
DOCTOR: Wrong. You of course can go out in the street.
ANNA: But doctor, I think my neighbor looks at me through the window and laughs.
