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16.<br />
FLORENCE<br />
I haven’t researched his prospects. I<br />
haven’t worked out his precise socioeconomic<br />
status. I haven’t arranged to<br />
marry him. I’ve asked him for tea. For<br />
tea!<br />
A pause after this outburst.<br />
GEOFFREY<br />
Jolly good. Pass me those new er, what<br />
are we calling them?<br />
VIOLET<br />
Mange tout.<br />
14 INT. HOTEL SUITE, SITTING ROOM. DAY.<br />
14<br />
EDWARD and FLORENCE have abandoned their dinner, but are still<br />
at the table. The tone now is intimate.<br />
How old?<br />
FLORENCE<br />
EDWARD<br />
I was fifteen. He took me to the<br />
bottom of the garden so the girls<br />
wouldn’t hear. And so he told me what<br />
happened in 1944. I’d grown up with it<br />
and took it for granted. We all did.<br />
You’ve seen how it is. We didn’t even<br />
let ourselves think she had a<br />
condition. And when I heard it, this<br />
horrible phrase, everything fell into<br />
place, and everything was different.<br />
Brain-damaged. Suddenly I saw her the<br />
way other people did... Anyway,<br />
let’s...<br />
FLORENCE<br />
Terrible moment...<br />
EDWARD<br />
No, it was like... a release. I felt<br />
this space opening out. She was braindamaged,<br />
and I wasn’t.<br />
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