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63 EXT. STEEP COUNTRY ROAD. DAY.<br />
63<br />
Early evening, same day. At the end of a day’s work in Henley,<br />
LIONEL pushes his bike up the hill towards the cottage. Piled in<br />
the bike’s wicker basket are school exercise books for marking.<br />
Top of the hill gained, LIONEL mounts his bike.<br />
64 INT. COTTAGE. KITCHEN. DAY.<br />
64<br />
FLORENCE is sorting out the kitchen. EDWARD is her helper. He is<br />
at the sink scrubbing pots, she is on her hands and knees,<br />
wooden spoon in hand, peering under the stove, retrieving<br />
something. There is a stew cooking.<br />
FLORENCE<br />
There are two more under here.<br />
Sprouting, but they’ll do. Peel’em and<br />
chuck’em in.<br />
She hands the potatoes to EDWARD and surveys the room.<br />
FLORENCE (CONT’D)<br />
Then we’re going to do something about<br />
this floor. Is there a bucket or...<br />
She is interrupted by a squeal from the sitting room.<br />
HARRIET AND ANNE<br />
Florence! Florence!<br />
65 INT. COTTAGE. SITTING ROOM. DAY.<br />
65<br />
We follow FLORENCE in. HARRIET and ANNE sit at the table,<br />
flanking their mother, their arms round her shoulders. They’ve<br />
all been painting. The twins display for us the work -<br />
MARJORIES’S, of course.<br />
We are looking at a striking, impressionistic, sized-up posterpaint<br />
version of the Uccello, or rather, a detail from it.<br />
Horsemen, wild-eyed horses, spears, woods. The colours are thick<br />
and swirling, as in a Van Gogh.<br />
Unnoticed, LIONEL has appeared in the facing doorway.
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