Act 2, Scene 2 Summary

On a late afternoon in August, the dental practice's phone rings, and Cleo enters the waiting room to answer it. Ben wants to take the call if it is Belle, which makes Cleo angry, and she lets the phone ring. Ben finally answers the ringing phone, and it is Prince calling for Cleo. Cleo postpones a date with Prince and primps in the mirror, not knowing that Frenchy is watching her.

Ben emerges from the inner office and asks Cleo not to go out with his patient, Willy Wax. Cleo is noncommittal but eventually accepts a lunch invitation from Willy, to Ben's dismay. Frenchy asks Cleo not to make any trouble for Ben because the other doctors like him and don't want to see him hurt. Frenchy continues that as a married man, Ben has had his ambitions thwarted, and he...