In this short scene, the audience is introduced to the protagonist, who is named cynnie. She is a young woman who has just returned from a trip to Europe. She tells the audience that she is a client of her brother's lawyer, and that her brother is a lover of hers. The protagonist asks her brother why he is not telling her the truth, and her brother replies that he does not know what to do. He does not want to go personally to find out what has happened, but he will have his brother bring the lover back to her as soon as he can. .