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INT. KENWOOD HOUSE. GALLERY. CONTINUOUS. DAY 288*
LORD MANSFIELDD’you see here...? This..this is
your grandfather, Sir Alexander
Lindsay of Evelick.
DIDO examines the painting. LORD MANSFIELD watches her.
LORD MANSFIELD (CONT’D)
I am here too....do you see?
Her eyes search the long line of her aristocratic heritage,
until her gaze settles. He chuckles, reluctantly charmed as
she points to his likeness.
LORD MANSFIELD (CONT’D)
Yes...I am William Murray, First
Earl of Mansfield.
A beat as he looks to her, affected by this little person.
Gently, he leads her to a final portrait.
LORD MANSFIELD (CONT’D)
(carefully)
Now...do you see this man? He is
my nephew...do you understand...?
(off Dido’s nod)
...your uncle - Sir David Murray.
DIDOElizabeth’s papa.
He pausesLORD MANSFIELDYou are a sharp little one. He is
The Seventh Viscount Stormont...
(beat. Almost to himself)
...to inherit everything that we
are standing on when I am gone.
She nods, bites her lip - that much has gone over her
head...he can see. He closes his eyes. The enormity of this
new responsibility weighing heavy.
INT. KENWOOD HOUSE. LADIES PARLOUR/LAWNS - DAY. 299*
LORD MANSFIELD’s POV: through window - The lawns. ELIZABETH
gently takes DIDO’S hand in hers, leads her off to run
between the trees. As their delighted screams filter...
LADY MANSFIELD enters - observes LORD Mansfield, a moment.
LADY MANSFIELDBorn on English soil?
7.
LORD MANSFIELDIndeed. He discovered her mother
aboard a captured Spanish slave
ship. He was charged with
conveying it back to these
shores, he tells me.
LADY MANSFIELDEvidently he had some...‘feeling’
for the woman.
LORD MANSFIELD(dry)
And there I was believing it was
sheer lack of ‘self control’.
(scathing)
He has been at sea, six years.
All of this child’s life!
LADY MANSFIELDWell, he clearly saw to their
wellbeing. The child is not
altogether uncivilized.
(she breathes deeply)
So...now we have two nieces in
our guardianship.
LORD MANSFIELD(reticent)
Elizabeth was much in need of a
companion.
LADY MANSFIELDAnd that is what we shall say
when questions are asked of us?
LORD MANSFIELDWe shall say that in accordance
with her birthright, she is
entitled to live beneath this roof.
(with irony)
Such...is the nature of ‘order’.
LADY MANSFIELDAnd where in this ‘order’ should
her colour be placed? Below or
above her Murray bloodline?
(off his silence)
May she dine with us?
LORD MANSFIELDShe may...(pause)...NOT...in
company. We cannot escape
society’s confines on etiquette
LADY MANSFIELDMarriage?
8.
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