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Setting: Next scene as Mason and Veronica are sitting on the cough next to each other.
Veronica: Mason, I just wouldn't feel right. I'd be afraid that somebody is going to walk in here any
minute.
Mason: (Acting even drunker than before). Not-not in my bedroom they won't.
Veronica: And what if your father comes home unexpectedly.
Mason: And wh-what if a neighbor should drop by. Veronica, are you trying to borrow trouble?
(Starts nibbling on her ear).
Veronica: Oh, speaking of a neighbor, I met one of yours just the other day. Lionel Lockridge.
Mason: (Pulls back) I'd rather not talk about Lionel Lockridge, if you don't mind?
Veronica: Oh, why? Don't you like him? I thought he seemed awful nice.
Mason: No, I don't like him! (Gets up and walks across the room) Our families have hated each
other for generations. It goes back to the turn of the century.
Veronica: Really? I had no idea. What happened?
Mason: The Lockridges did something to the Capwells, then the Capwells retaliated, and ever
since then the families haven't had too much to do with each other. I don't know why you bought up
his name in the first place.
Veronica: Oh, I'm sorry. I had no idea you felt that way.
Mason: And now you know. It goes further than that. My father would like to see them driven out of
Santa Barbara.
Veronica: That's very feudal, and not easy to accomplish in this day and age.
Mason: You'd be surprised. I may have figure out a way to help things along.
Veronica: Well, how very clever of you, some skeletons from the past?
Mason: It has to do with some beachfront property they own, or what they think they own, and I
want to give to my father. Dad's had his eye on it for a long time and I can't wait to see his face
when I give it to him. He's been trying to pull this off for years. Now, I'm going to do it for him.
Veronica: Hmm, I'm impressed. I have a feeling you're not a good man to have as an enemy.
Mason: No, I'm not. The Lockridges are going to find that out very quickly.
Veronica: When is all this going to happen?
Mason: Soon. That's all I can tell you.
Veronica: Well, I don't know what this is all about, but I wish you luck, and since the momentum
that we had going is no longer there, shall I go home now?
Mason: All right. I'll get your coat.
Veronica: I'd still like to see you again.
Mason: All right, on one condition, that you don't bring up the Lockridge name again.
Veronica: No. I learned my lesson.