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11: INT. IAN: 'S CAR -- 76 TOTTERS LANE (CON'T) 

 
Both schoolteachers are completely baffled.
 
BARBARA: Too many questions, and not enough answers.
 
IAN: Stupid? Or just doesn't know? So -- we have a fifteen year old girl who's absolutely brilliant at some things, excruciatingly bad at others and, well, just inexplicable at the rest.
 
BARBARA: (points out the window) There she is! See her?
 
And indeed she is. She's looking around, as if making sure she's not being followed. Then she ducks behind the gate.
 
IAN: She looks around like somebody who's afraid she's being watched. Or, is my imagination working over time?
 
BARBARA: Look, can we go in now? I hate to think of her alone in that place.
 
IAN: If she is alone. Look, she is fifteen -- she might be meeting a boy. Did that occur to you?
 
BARBARA: (grin) I almost hope she is.
 
IAN: (laughs) You do?
 
BARBARA: Well, it would be so...normal.
 
Both teachers laugh. But Barbara grows uncommonly somber.
 
BARBARA: Isn't it silly? I feel afraid -- as if we're about to interfer in something that's best left alone......
 

 

Both schoolteachers are completely baffled.
 
BARBARA: Too many questions, too little answers.
 
IAN: Too stupid.....or just doesn't know. So -- we have a fifteen year old girl who's absolutely brilliant at some things and excruciatingly bad at others. ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
 
BARBARA: (points out the window) There she is!
 
And indeed she is. She's looking around, as if making sure she's not being followed. Then she ducks behind the gate.
 
...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
 
BARBARA: Look, can we go in? I--I hate to think of her, all alone in that place.
 
IAN: If she is alone. Look, she is fifteen -- she might be meeting a boy. Didn't that occur to you?
 
BARBARA: (grin) And I almost hope she is.
 
IAN: What do you mean?
 
BARBARA: Well, it would be so wonderfully normal.
 
Both teachers laugh. But Barbara grows uncommonly somber.
 
BARBARA: It's silly, isn't it? I feel frightened -- as though we're about to mess with something that's best left alone......
 

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