The scene

'Hello, Sharon.'

'Hello, Alfie.'

'I've been fantasizing about you.'

'I've been fantasizing about you, too.'

I approach her slowly. I've been smoking a cigar in the shadows of my office. I am Alfie Norton, private eye.

'You look really handsome in that fedora,' Sharon says.

'You look sexy in those heels,' I say.

I blow the smoke casually into the shadowy room. Everything is silent. And then. . .