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27.<br />
32 INT. REHEARSAL ROOM. LONDON. DAY.<br />
32<br />
May 1960. FLORENCE is rehearsing with her quartet - JENNY (2ND<br />
VIOLIN), SONIA (viola) and CHARLES, (cello) - all second-year<br />
students at the Royal College of Music.<br />
Sitting listening are a couple of friends, a tutor and a girl,<br />
another student, ELSBETH.<br />
We come in on the last passionate and tumultuous four bars of<br />
the 3rd Razumovsky quartet. Then, an expectant silence. Have<br />
they just done something amazing? They are waiting for FLORENCE.<br />
She is matter-of-fact.<br />
FLORENCE<br />
It’ll do for now.<br />
She leans forward to make a pencil note on her score. Then draws<br />
from under it another score, from which she takes the various<br />
parts and hands them out. There is a murmur of disapproval from<br />
the other players.<br />
CHARLES<br />
What’s this?<br />
There is one part left over. Unseen by the others, ELSBETH<br />
stands with her viola already out of its case, and takes the<br />
part, goes to fetch a music stand.<br />
Quintet?<br />
JENNY<br />
FLORENCE<br />
You said I should decide on the next<br />
piece...<br />
SONIA<br />
But it means getting in another viola.<br />
CHARLES<br />
Another person. It’s going to change<br />
everything.<br />
JENNY<br />
It’s too soon.
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