“Two figures sit on the end of the jetty. It is dusk. The man is fishing. There is remnants of fish and chips in white paper lying between them. She is reading Melancholy. He is staring out to sea. 

Quotation from Melancholy: "She sat at the end of the jetty ... From where she sat she could see the quiet little foreshore with its white bandstand framed by Norfolk Pine. Beyond that, the road swept up the hill into the township." 

Marge: Look, the bandstand, the pines, the road sweeping up to the township. Everything. It's exactly as she describes it. It's Sorrento.”

“The three sisters are sitting at the end of the jetty.

Troy is seen wandering, 'still looking for Pop'.

Meg: Poor kid. The sea will never give up its dead.”

“Scene Two, It is seven a.m. Hilary stands on the balcony looking out to sea.”

“Pip [to Meg]: I don't think that you believe I feel any real sentiment about this house. But you're wrong. I do. Regardless of what I feel, I think we should encourage Hil to move out. [Pause] This place is dying, Meg. The heart and soul of this house, this town, disappeared with Dad. Vanished - presumed dead. But it's not dead yet. It's just dying. Don't you feel it? We're living with the dying because there's no body. No burial. And there will never be a burial until we sell this house.”

“The play takes place in present time. In Act One, there are three households - Meg and Edwin's flat in London, the Moynihan family home in Sorrento and Marge's holiday house in Sorrento. In Act Two, all action takes place in Sorrento. Sorrento is a pretty coastal town on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia.”

Quotation from Melancholy: “With the demise of summer. the town seemed to settle back on itself, to mellow. The breeze no longer carried the crackle of transistors, the call of gulls and the smell of fish and chips. With the summer visitors gone, there was a sense of quiet industry about the place. It was the business of getting on with things.”