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101. 119 INT. COTTAGE. DAY 119 An hour later. The place is far less cluttered than before. Not much modernised. The untidiness is of a man living alone. But the interior of the cottage is instantly recognizable. The furniture is unchanged. Along one wall, a large cd collection. There are some records scattered along a shelf above the hi-fi. Edward’s cricket shoes are on the floor along with a half finished cup of tea. He is stretched out on the sofa, snoozing. A cat is asleep on his stomach. A newspaper has slid to the floor. We see part of a headline over an article EDWARD has been reading. ‘Ennismore Quartet forty fifth anniversary triumph’ 120 INT. COTTAGE. KITCHEN. DAY. 120 The following morning. EDWARD kneels to feed the cat, talks to it. We have the impression this is an important relationship. 121 EXT. COTTAGE GARDEN. DAY. 121 EDWARD cuts some flowers to make a small posey. 122 EXT. PATH THROUGH BEECH WOODS. DAY 122 Carrying the flowers, EDWARD makes his way along a footpath deep in the woods. He pauses briefly at a fork in the path. EDWARD walks on. VOICE OVER Sometimes, when he thought of her, he wondered if this was the path she took when she walked to the cricket ground all those years ago... VOICE OVER (CONT’D) It rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Finally he could admit it, he had never met anyone he loved as much, never found anyone who matched her seriousness. (MORE)
102. VOICE OVER (CONT’D) If he’d stayed with her, perhaps he would have written those history books... 123 EXT. COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. DAY. 123 Minutes later. EDWARD puts the flowers by the graves of his parents, Marjorie Mayhew (1918 - 1976) and Lionel Mayhew (1916 - 1983). VOICE OVER Her strange proposal was irrelevant. All she needed was the certainty of his love, his reassurance that there was no hurry, not when a lifetime lay ahead of them... EDWARD comes up the churchyard path, steps through the gate under the yew. On the verge beneath the wall, by the place where FLORENCE stopped to look at her map and eat her orange, he sees some peel scattered on the grass. VOICE OVER (CONT’D) Love and patience would surely have seen them through. EDWARD looks round and sees two HIKERS walking away, sharing an orange as they go. He heads for home across an open grassy field towards the woods. VOICE OVER (CONT’D) And then what unborn children might have had their chances, what young girl with an Alice band might have become his daughter, his loved familiar? SLOW FADE TO: 124 EXT. BEACH. DAY 124 July 1962. Chesil Beach in summer calm and evening glory.
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14. VIOLET A million Russian troops
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