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3.<br />
2 INT. HOTEL LOUNGE. DAY<br />
2<br />
An air of rectitude and relaxation. Seven or eight couples,<br />
middle-aged or elderly. Gin and tonics, pipes, sherries,<br />
knitting, backgammon. The men mostly ex-military.<br />
We see EDWARD and FLORENCE pass in front of the doors that give<br />
onto the corridor. They are by far the youngest guests in the<br />
hotel.<br />
3 INT. HOTEL CORRIDOR. DAY<br />
3<br />
Two WAITERS, nervous, put-upon local lads, manipulate the<br />
trolley with its dish-warming candles along an ancient creaking<br />
corridor, lifting their burden painstakingly down a step.<br />
WAITER ONE<br />
Easy... Steady... Get it!<br />
Close-up. The wine bottle, already opened, totters, falls, hits<br />
the floral carpet, starts to disgorge.<br />
Bastard!<br />
WAITER TWO<br />
Give him here.<br />
WAITER TWO, lips pursed in concentration, tips water from a<br />
glass jug into the wine bottle.<br />
4 INT. HOTEL SUITE, SITTING ROOM. DAY.<br />
4<br />
Sitting room and bedroom are connected by double doors. The<br />
sitting room has open french windows onto a small first floor<br />
balcony that overlooks the beach. A small bare dining table<br />
stands in front of the french windows.<br />
A big pre-War bakelite wireless.<br />
WIRELESS<br />
‘...shows affinity with the melodic<br />
complexity of his later...’<br />
EDWARD<br />
Not tonight...
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