Cosmopolitan Eavesdrip Skulking

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EXT. KING'S COLLEGE-BODLEY'S COURT-LATE AFTERNOON-RAIN

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SHEAMERICAN

Just put the damn cigarette in your mouth and stop talking.

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GERMANMAN

Hmph!

[lights cigarette]
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ANGLOTOFF

You sound like his mum.

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SHEAMERICAN

No, a mom would say, “Hush. Here, now let me put this cigarette in your mouth.”

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GERMANMAN

And a dad would say, “Hey! Take that cigarette out of your mouth and let

me put one of mine in its place."

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[troubled silence and pointed avoidance of eye contact to fade]

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