(The
two gray-heads, GEORGETTE and GRACE, are traversing the jungle with
COUNTESS
VAN DER CAVE, on a mission for something.)
COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
Can either of you actually hear men?
GEORGETTE
What do you mean?
COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
Hear their voices when they speak?
GRACE
Of course---
COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
I can’t.
They’re too low.
GRACE
Ridiculous---
COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
They say the high tones go first. But, as a woman living among women,
I’ve lost my low.
GEORGETTE
Grace’s voice is very gravelly because of her Camels---I
don’t fault her---and you hear her fine.
COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
There’s something feminine---
GEORGETTE
That’s silly---
GRACE
But, Georgette:
last month, the UPS guy came to the door. I think it was those herbal teas. And he was moving his lips like he wanted something. But neither of us heard
him. So, after a few minutes, he walked
away.
GEORGETTE
Now that you mention it, I haven’t heard a man in
years. Remember when those
missionaries showed up on bicycles?
We stood there nodding for half an hour.
GRACE
I guess we can’t
hear men.
COUNTESS VAN DER CAVE
So tell me how we’ll know when we’re near the
drug lords?
(She
snorts some snuff.)
END
OF EPISODE 58.
