Time: August 1984
Setting: The Lockridge mansion
Characters: Joe, Minx and Augusta
Premise: Having been released from prison, Joe Perkins is hired by Augusta Lockridge. He's fixing the door frame when Augusta's mother-in-law, Minx, enters the room.

Minx: Stop it! Stop that noise! Stop that racket! Stop...

Joe: (Stops) Sorry. Hammers tend to make a little racket, ma'am.

Minx: What are you doing in here?

Joe: Your door frame is a little loose. I was fixing it.

Minx: Oh leave it alone, there's nothing wrong with that... (Astonished) You're Joe Perkins!

Joe: Right.

Minx: Well had I known, I might not have dared come in here. (Startled) Drop that hammer!

Joe: (Lays down the hammer) It was your daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lockridge, that hired me.

Minx: That's like her.

Joe: I'll get out now.

Minx: Did you kill that Capwell boy?

Joe: No.

Minx: Are you lying?

Joe: No ma'am.

Minx: I've read about you.

Joe: Everybody has.

Minx: When I read about you, I thought of your family, your poor mother and your poor father.

Joe: Oh yeah it's been hell for them.

Minx: You sound sorry.

Joe: I am. Well I can leave now.

Minx: I heard your father had an accident. Is he all right now?

Joe: Yeah he's okay, his leg acts up sometimes.

Minx: And your poor mother?

Joe: She's hanging in there.

Minx: Five years in prison. It's a long time.

Joe: Yes.

Minx: (Fascination showing through) Tell me, uh, for a man in modern prison, uh, do you have any female companionship?

Joe: (Amused) Well I didn't. They haven't gotten that modern yet. At least mine wasn't.

Augusta: (Enters the room) Well how's it going?

Joe: Oh fine, fine. I was just getting acquainted with Mrs. Lockridge here.

Minx: Yes stick around, I have several things in mind for you to do.

Joe: Fine. Anytime.

Augusta: (Sarcastic) Leave him alone, Minx. He's too young for you. (Walks out of room.)

(Undeterred, Minx winks at Joe and smiles.)