SCENE 6

In the garden of the hotel. THE HANDSOME MAN WHO DOESN’T KNOW WHY is looking lovingly at LIVINIA, a servant girl with long hair. He holds her in his arms.

THE HANDSOME MAN: Tonight we will go from here…

LIVINIA: Yes.

THE HANDSOME MAN: My very own love.

LIVINIA: Oh, yes.

THE HANDSOME MAN: And you will be mine. In a little house by the woods. And there will be no man happier than I.

(They kiss. DAN comes on, serenades them.)

                        “What Road”

                        Once I was made beautiful in the light of an hour

                        But this year, I’m just a meal laid out for August to devour

                        So quick let’s go, it’s time for a ride

                        The future’s yours, no way to lie

                        It is not yours, it is a replica of scattered ash

                        And the road the rain’s on

                        What road, what road, what road, what road…