"Across a Georgian candle-lit dining room that has been abandoned in the midst of a lavish dinner: fresh flowers, candles still burning, wine in the goblets, leftovers on the plates and napkins strewn about. On the table: bone china, silver-plated cutlery and miniature decorative sphinxes. Around it: heavily decorated mahogany furniture and display cabinets with valuable china. On the walls: medical diagrams of the human body (the muscles and the digestive system), a very decorative mirror on a black cloth and portraits of Elizabeth I and various noblemen. In the fireplace: the fire is out. An unseen clock is loudly ticking. All suggests that this is the house of a well-to-do and cultivated gentleman with an interest in science, history and travel; and that the meal has suddenly been interrupted under unexplained circumstances."

Scene descriptions from Eli Rozik, Non-Theatrical Space as Metaphor: Some Speculations on H.G. (1998)