moves on to the next Lot, while DAVID and DANNY turn to JENNY.
DANNY
Thank you. Couldn’t possibly have bought it without you.
JENNY beams. She’s thrilled.
27 EXTERIOR: LONDON STREET - DAY
The Bristol pulls into a smart Regency terrace.We hear their conversation from the car.
DANNY ( out of sight )
A couple of years ago you could pick one of them up for fifty quid, you know. Nobody was interested.
JENNY ( out of sight )
I would have been so interested.
28 INTERIOR: DANNY’S FLAT - DAY
A beautiful, large, airy sitting room inside the terrace apartment.The flat is unusually and tastefully decorated, opulent and indicative of Bohemian good taste. JENNY is sipping a glass of white wine and walking around the room enthralled, looking at DANNY’S collection. Suddenly JENNY sees a cello in the corner of the room - a good one.
JENNY
That’s not a Lockey-Hill!
DANNY
There aren’t many people who come in here and say that.
HELEN
Certainly not me.
JENNY
It’s beautiful. Do you play?
DANNY
I used to. I vowed to myself that one day I’d own one of these. And now that I do own one, I never touch the bugger. It’s vulgar to put it on show, really.
HELEN
Give it to Jenny.
DANNY
That would be even more vulgar.
DAVID
Play for us, Jenny.
JENNY
Gosh, no. One day. When I’m good enough.
DAVID
She’s good enough now.
JENNY
Oh, David.You’ve never seen me play.
DAVID
I shall come to hear you in Oxford, when you get there.
DANNY
We should all go and spend a weekend in Oxford. Straw boaters -
HELEN
( cutting in )
Boats!
DANNY
- punting, cream teas, antiquarian bookshops . . . Bit of business, if we can find it. What about next weekend?
DAVID / HELEN
Yes!
JENNY
I wouldn’t be allowed to do that.
They all look at her.
DAVID
I’ll talk to them.
JENNY hoots with derision.
JENNY
You’re going to ask my father if you can take me away for the weekend? He’d have you arrested.
DAVID
We’ll see.
JENNY
I’ll bet you you can’t.
DAVID
How much?
DANNY
( amused )
I’d be careful, if I were you, Jenny.You don’t know who you’re dealing with.
JENNY
Half-a-crown.
DAVID
You’re on.
29 INTERIOR/EXTERIOR: DAVID’S CAR/ DILAPIDATED HOUSE - DAY
JENNY and DAVID are driving along a North Kensington street.
JENNY
How do you know Danny?
DAVID is distracted. He’s driving slowly, apparently looking for an address.
DAVID
Oh, you know. We kept bumping into each other, and we became pals, and we’ve ended up doing a bit of business together, when it suits us.
JENNY
What kind of business?
DAVID
Property. A bit of art dealing. Some buying and selling. This and that . . .
He stops the car.
Right. I’ll just be two ticks.
He gets out of the car, and JENNY watches him as he crosses the road. Outside a dilapidated house covered in scaffolding stands a large West Indian family - mother, father, three or four small children and a dog.They are surrounded by what appears to be all their worldly goods.
DAVID squats down on his haunches, talks to the kids, tousles the hair of the smallest.Then he takes out a bunch of keys and ushers the family down the path. He unlocks the door and leads them inside.
In an upper window of the house, we see an old lady peering down anxiously.
30 EXTERIOR: STREET/DILAPIDATED HOUSE - DAY
DAVID emerges from the house, jangling his keys.
31 INTERIOR: DAVID’S CAR - DAY
JENNY opens the glove compartment where DAVID keeps his cigarettes, takes out the packet, removes and lights one for herself. DAVID gets in.
DAVID
Sorry about that.
JENNY
How do you know those . . . Negro people?
DAVID
They’re clients.
JENNY
Clients?
DAVID
Schwarzers have to live somewhere. It’s not as if they can rent off their own kind, is it?
He starts the car and drives off.
32 INTERIOR: CLASS ROOM/LATIN - DAY
JENNY is in her Latin class, waiting for the
DANNY
Thank you. Couldn’t possibly have bought it without you.
JENNY beams. She’s thrilled.
27 EXTERIOR: LONDON STREET - DAY
The Bristol pulls into a smart Regency terrace.We hear their conversation from the car.
DANNY ( out of sight )
A couple of years ago you could pick one of them up for fifty quid, you know. Nobody was interested.
JENNY ( out of sight )
I would have been so interested.
28 INTERIOR: DANNY’S FLAT - DAY
A beautiful, large, airy sitting room inside the terrace apartment.The flat is unusually and tastefully decorated, opulent and indicative of Bohemian good taste. JENNY is sipping a glass of white wine and walking around the room enthralled, looking at DANNY’S collection. Suddenly JENNY sees a cello in the corner of the room - a good one.
JENNY
That’s not a Lockey-Hill!
DANNY
There aren’t many people who come in here and say that.
HELEN
Certainly not me.
JENNY
It’s beautiful. Do you play?
DANNY
I used to. I vowed to myself that one day I’d own one of these. And now that I do own one, I never touch the bugger. It’s vulgar to put it on show, really.
HELEN
Give it to Jenny.
DANNY
That would be even more vulgar.
DAVID
Play for us, Jenny.
JENNY
Gosh, no. One day. When I’m good enough.
DAVID
She’s good enough now.
JENNY
Oh, David.You’ve never seen me play.
DAVID
I shall come to hear you in Oxford, when you get there.
DANNY
We should all go and spend a weekend in Oxford. Straw boaters -
HELEN
( cutting in )
Boats!
DANNY
- punting, cream teas, antiquarian bookshops . . . Bit of business, if we can find it. What about next weekend?
DAVID / HELEN
Yes!
JENNY
I wouldn’t be allowed to do that.
They all look at her.
DAVID
I’ll talk to them.
JENNY hoots with derision.
JENNY
You’re going to ask my father if you can take me away for the weekend? He’d have you arrested.
DAVID
We’ll see.
JENNY
I’ll bet you you can’t.
DAVID
How much?
DANNY
( amused )
I’d be careful, if I were you, Jenny.You don’t know who you’re dealing with.
JENNY
Half-a-crown.
DAVID
You’re on.
29 INTERIOR/EXTERIOR: DAVID’S CAR/ DILAPIDATED HOUSE - DAY
JENNY and DAVID are driving along a North Kensington street.
JENNY
How do you know Danny?
DAVID is distracted. He’s driving slowly, apparently looking for an address.
DAVID
Oh, you know. We kept bumping into each other, and we became pals, and we’ve ended up doing a bit of business together, when it suits us.
JENNY
What kind of business?
DAVID
Property. A bit of art dealing. Some buying and selling. This and that . . .
He stops the car.
Right. I’ll just be two ticks.
He gets out of the car, and JENNY watches him as he crosses the road. Outside a dilapidated house covered in scaffolding stands a large West Indian family - mother, father, three or four small children and a dog.They are surrounded by what appears to be all their worldly goods.
DAVID squats down on his haunches, talks to the kids, tousles the hair of the smallest.Then he takes out a bunch of keys and ushers the family down the path. He unlocks the door and leads them inside.
In an upper window of the house, we see an old lady peering down anxiously.
30 EXTERIOR: STREET/DILAPIDATED HOUSE - DAY
DAVID emerges from the house, jangling his keys.
31 INTERIOR: DAVID’S CAR - DAY
JENNY opens the glove compartment where DAVID keeps his cigarettes, takes out the packet, removes and lights one for herself. DAVID gets in.
DAVID
Sorry about that.
JENNY
How do you know those . . . Negro people?
DAVID
They’re clients.
JENNY
Clients?
DAVID
Schwarzers have to live somewhere. It’s not as if they can rent off their own kind, is it?
He starts the car and drives off.
32 INTERIOR: CLASS ROOM/LATIN - DAY
JENNY is in her Latin class, waiting for the
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