Michelle (Offstage) Oh, here they are.

Jeremy (Offstage) How the hell are we supposed get the armoire through here? Or the couch?

Michelle (Offstage) We’ll leave them for the end. The elevator is already being used by someone else.

Jeremy (Offstage) We should’ve gotten here sooner. We only have the truck for another hour, and I’m not spending it playing “Pivot.”

(The couple enters from below. They’re carrying items, boxes, etc.)

Michelle You think I want that? My great-grandmother sailed here with that armoire.

Jeremy Don’t start…

Michelle Her grandfather—

Jeremy I know…

Michelle Carved it from—

Jeremy From the Tree of Knowledge that Adam and Eve ate at, throwing us all into mortal sin.

Michelle Jeremy.

Jeremy Legend has it if you eat an apple in front of it, you will hear the hissing of