:G2430 (G) Time: 2430 Lylla comes into the area to join Maxine. moves off. /en5/ LYLLA Quite a wedding you people put on. YIN MAXINE Thank you. LYLLA I must congratulate you -- it's a very impressive and creative idea, a wedding with such, well, unusual trappings. Of course, the very name -- the Universal Church of Primitive Balance -- suggests going back to basics. YIN MAXINE You have an interest in the church? LYLLA As a matter of fact, yes, I do. YIN MAXINE You should talk to Cyndi. LYLLA I plan to. Have you been a member long? YIN MAXINE About six months. LYLLA That's about how long I've known about them. Was it a difficult choice for you to join? YIN MAXINE Actually, no. They had something I wanted. LYLLA I'm still more vague in what I'm searching for, I guess. Just another lost soul. YIN MAXINE I used to be lost myself. LYLLA What is it the church gives you? I know it's a hard question to answer. YIN MAXINE It isn't at all: I have an opportunity to be a mother. LYLLA I don't think I understand. YIN MAXINE I was attracted to the church's surrogate mother program. LYLLA I haven't heard of it. YIN MAXINE It's one of the most successful programs in the church. The great majority of church members are very successful, very upward mobile people -- lawyers, doctors, engineers, and so on, very bright and successful and spriritual people. Both the surrogate mother program and the sperm bank take advantage of this elite quality -- it's more or less putting the best genetic material available on the market. I was very flattered to be accepted, actually. LYLLA You joined just to be a surrogate mother? YIN MAXINE I was recruited, actually. They sought me out. I still don't know how they knew about me, it's not as if I've had the opportunity to give concerts. I'm an artist, a concert pianist, but I've been very invisible, very isolated and dedicated to my art. I was shocked, frankly, that they'd even heard about me. Then they offered me the opportunity to join the church, to get paid for becoming a surrogate mother, with considerable time to devote to my studies -- I was in a rather precarious situation at the time, it was like a godsend, like a prayer come true. I can't believe it happened to me. LYLLA How fortunate for you. YIN MAXINE Modestly, I must say I do deserve it. LYLLA Do you have other children? YIN MAXINE No. If I didn't have this godsend, it'd be too late for me. LYLLA But you're not keeping the child. YIN MAXINE Oh no, of course not. But at least I have the birthing experience. And, of course, I've made a considerable genetic contribution to the species. LYLLA Do they pay you for your services? YIN MAXINE Well, yes, but I hope you don't think I'm doing it for the money. LYLLA I didn't mean to imply that. YIN MAXINE They're paying me very well, actually. It has to do with the artistic genes, I think. Like I said, I feel very flattered by the entire affair. I've been doing my art in a vacuum for so long. LYLLA You look familiar, actually. You never gave concerts? I could swear I've seen your picture in the paper. YIN MAXINE Oh dear. I have been in the paper. LYLLA I remember: You lived in the Brodey mansion, didn't you? YIN MAXINE That's a part of my life I want to forget. I suppose you remember me from those terrible photographs during the trial. It was the most trying experience of my life, going through that. It's not easy finding out your employer is a murderer. LYLLA And a victim. YIN MAXINE Oh, Mrs. Brodey is the one who wrote my check. She ran the mansion. The doctor was hardly ever home. Too busy with his daliances, as it turned out. LYLLA It was a controversial trial, as I recall. YIN MAXINE Naturally Mrs. Brodey declared her innocence. In fact, she claimed that I murdered the doctor. Like I said, it's a part of my life that seems like a nightmare. LYLLA You must be much happier now. YIN MAXINE Indeed I am! LYLLA Having worked at the mansion, you must know the bride. YIN MAXINE Of course. LYLLA The wedding was so unusual -- are you something like a bridesmaid? YIN MAXINE Yang Wolf and I were involved in the bridal offering. LYLLA So that's what it was. I take it that's something of an honor -- especially since you know the bride so well. YIN MAXINE Oh, we're not really very close. LYLLA I thought you were. I mean, living in the mansion together and now participating in the wedding . . . YIN MAXINE Do you know the Brodey family? LYLLA Only Jack, really. YIN MAXINE You know Jack? I wish I'd known that earlier. LYLLA Why? YIN MAXINE Jack and I don't get along very well. It's not my fault. I think he blames me for his father's death. LYLLA Why would he do that? YIN MAXINE I'm sorry, I think I've talked too much about the past -- it brings such bad memories. If you'll excuse me, I-- LYLLA I didn't mean to upset you. YIN MAXINE I'm going to get back into the spirit of the wedding. She moves off, into area E. /ex11/ TIME CODE: 27:30 Lylla goes downstairs. /ex5/ TIME CODE: 27:30 ?"Follow Maxine" ?"Follow Lylla" :"Follow Lylla" Follow Lylla :"Follow Maxine" Follow Maxine