Act 2 Part 4 Summary

Delia and Jean sit reading. Offstage there is the sound of excited voices. Dan runs on, desperately trying to calm himself but incredibly excited because they've discovered the tomb of a god-king, buried with jewelry, armor, treasure, and the bodies of hundreds of servants. As he tries to remember what he came in to find, Delia and Jean rush out, then come back in with August, Cynthia, Chad, and Kirsten, all moving boxes and artifacts. They shout excitedly to one another about how the find has to be kept secret for a while, how the head of August's department is already totaling the grants he's going and the magazine covers he's going to be on, and how Chad's father is going to be the one who actually becomes famous.

The action settles down to actual work on the artifacts, with August...