Marriage Quickie

MAN and GIRL in bed. Close on their faces. The MAN is smoking a post-coital cigarette.

GIRL:  Darling, that was all right for you, wasn’t it?

MAN:  What? Oh yes, fine thanks.

GIRL:  So you…you are still going to marry me, aren’t you?

MAN:  Well, I…

GIRL:  But you promised! Please?

MAN:  Oh all right.

(PULL BACK as he leans over to stub out the cigarette. A SECOND MAN is lying in bed the other side of him, looking fed up. Around the bed people are grouped in their Sunday best, as for a wedding ceremony. The first MAN takes a bible from beneath the covers.

MAN:  Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony…

maybe in latter times, that would have to be Woman not Girl.