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19.<br />
MARGORIE is cutting pictures from a magazine to paste into a<br />
scrap book. She looks up sharply as EDWARD comes in.<br />
EDWARD<br />
Mum, listen. Are you listening?<br />
MARJORIE<br />
This isn’t how she looks now. It’s the<br />
future. It’s a new thing. A special<br />
camera tells you how she’ll look one<br />
day.<br />
EDWARD<br />
This is important. Put that down a<br />
minute. Listen to me. I got a first.<br />
Mum, a first...<br />
MARJORIE<br />
That’s right, son. I saw you. I was<br />
watching. Now you tell me. Yellow,<br />
like this. It’s got two things, a<br />
number and a meaning. Now I know the<br />
number...<br />
Seven.<br />
EDWARD<br />
MARJORIE<br />
Seven. But I can’t remember what it<br />
means.<br />
19 INT. MAYHEWS’ COTTAGE. STAIRS. DAY<br />
19<br />
EDWARD goes up the stairs.<br />
EDWARD<br />
Ruth? Harriet?<br />
20 INT. MAYHEW’S COTTAGE. GIRLS’ BEDROOM. DAY.<br />
20<br />
More squalor - unmade beds, discarded dirty clothes on the<br />
floor, food-encrusted plates etc. Teenage boredom. The girls are<br />
on their beds. HARRIET paints her fingernails, RUTH is writing<br />
in a diary. A tiny transistor plays squawky pop music.
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