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-MARY looks away, embarrassed and somehow ashamed as she

bows her head and moves out of their eye line, then quickly

moves towards the DRIVER who has now also come inside.

MARY:

Will it take long to change the

horses? *

The DRIVER looks at her in surprise. She elaborates -*

MARY (CONT’D)

I’m going to Jamaica Inn.

Frozen silence from the DRIVER. But LEGASSIK also hears. With

brusque derision

CORNISH DRIVER *

Jamaica Inn? We don’t go out there *

no more. *

LEGASSIK *

(brusque) *

If it’s work you’re after, you *

won’t find it out there. And the *

tin and copper mines’ve queues to

Lands End every morning, being *

turned away.

MARY:

I’m expected. It’s my uncle’s inn.

LEGASSIK sneers a laugh of dark judgement.

LEGASSIK *

Then you can tell your uncle *

Legassik says hello. *

The DRIVER is alarmed by the reveal about her uncle, about to

voice it but

JEM:

What’s your name?

JEM is suddenly next to her and his presence scares the

DRIVER off. As MARY turns to look at him, his stare makes her

self-conscious.

MARY:

Mary.

JEM:

It’s rough out at Jamaica, Mary.

Coaches don’t stop there any more.

.

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MARY:

Well be that as it may, it’s where

I’m bound.

(testy bravado)

I’m not afraid of hardship.

.

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JEM studies her with curiosity, tests her -

JEM:

It’s just the moors for twenty

miles. Some say there’s ghosts.

MARY:

I’m not afraid of ghosts either.

Something in her spirit interests him. He stares-

JEM:

What are you afraid of?

She tries to hold his clear gaze but can’t; blushes

inexplicably and looks away in sudden confusion.

He's still looking, and she can feel it through her clothes.

His look says that he can guess what would scare a woman and

he’s worried that she’ll find it where she’s going.

But there’s a sudden furore as a nasty fight breaks out

between some DRINKERS, ale spilling and MEN flying backwards,

and the LEGASSIK hurries to break it up in vain

LEGASSIK:

Hey, hey, hey!

MARY steps back, noticing that JEM has vanished. She decides

she’s better off outside after all and heads out. *

EXT. THE FLEECE INN, LAUNCESTON, CORNWALL - EVENING 13

The prostrate MAN is still on the ground as MARY returns,

surprised to notice JEM is quietly uncoupling LEGASSIK’s

horse from his cart, talking to it tenderly.

As he leads it off, he meets her eye - her surprise - but he

smiles and grazes a finger to his lips-

Before MARY can react, the inn door busts open and one of the

BRAWLERS flies backwards and nearly sends MARY flying.

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