Act 1 Part 4 Summary

August shows a slide of a pot from a previous excavation, and comments to Dianne that he doesn't know why the slide is in this collection. Back in the house Delia sits on the couch, Kirsten sits nearby, and Jean does situps as Cynthia comes in from the dig. She asks Delia how she slept the previous night, and when Delia says she was cold Cynthia starts to go upstairs to get some blankets, but Delia says that now she's fine. Cynthia and Delia talk about Delia's history of being a wanderer, which leads Kirsten to ask about Delia's husband. Delia jokes about being very young when she married him and barely able to remember him, but then crudely refers to his sexual abilities and to how she traveled with him throughout the Far East.

As the conversation continues, Dan and...