OLESYA (happy): A woman becomes wonderful only when she tries for the person she loves. So the fact that I am, as you say, wonderful, is "to blame" for you.
EUGENE (gently): I love you!
OLESYA (happy): And i you.
They eat.
OLESYA (pleasantly): How are things at work?
EUGENE (calmly): And…, nothing very new. Although! It could be something new, by the way. Again, I am not being prophesied to be a deputy.
Olesya nods knowingly.
EUGENE (indignantly): The main thing, you know, they take some people who don't understand where they came from, put them in office, a month or two or three, everything, again the vacancy is free. Again they accept, again people leave. They're looking for a man again. Well, why, I wonder, look for someone from the outside, when here I am. And with experience, and in good standing, and I know all the nuances. I'm already worn out. My superiors in the dining room are already bypassing me through the distant tables, so long as I do not bother again with an urgent question. But I get them there, too. And what do you think?
OLESYA (questioningly): What?
EUGENE (angrily): Yesterday I attended another of the screw-head.
OLESYA (with support): I never understood these bosses. And everyone says that they have, say, "big heads". Where are they big? In what place? Elementary things do not understand, and all the same-the bosses …
EUGENE (with support): Here-here-here. Golden words!
OLESYA (warmly): Well, you eat-eat. The bosses are the bosses, and we have more important things to do here.
EUGENE (not quite understanding, after a pause): Burgers then?
OLESYA (warmly): Yeah.
EUGENE (heat): That yes. This is always a priority.
They eat.
OLESYA (cautiously): Zhen?
EUGENE (in the process of eating, not too interested): M?
OLESYA (carefully): Why can't we legalize our relationship?
Eugene chokes, begins to clear his throat.
Olesya jumps down and slaps him on the back.
Everything ends well.
Catching his breath, Eugene throws up his hands in response.
EUGENE (with shortness of breath): Dear, is it possible to talk about such things like this, without overclocking, without foreplay, so to speak …
OLESYA (carefully): I'm sorry… It's just that we've been living in a civil marriage for three years now. My family and I keep asking why Zhenya won't marry you, and I keep joking, but…