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MR. BROWNLOW

Hey! Wait a moment.

(A fully dressed OLIVER and MRS. BEDWIN cross towards MR. BROWNLOW, who tries to get the attention of the DELIVERY PERSON.)

Hey! Come back! Oh really, really, really and I particularly wished some books to be returned today.

DR. GRIMWIG

(cannily)

Why not send Oliver with them?

OLIVER

Yes! Do let me take them for you please, sir.

MR. BROWNLOW

Oh! Em, oh very well my boy, very well. If you wish, you shall. Now I'll tell you what I want you to do. You will give Mr. Jessop these books, it's just down the road, and say you've come to pay the four pounds ten that I owe him. Here's five pounds. No need to rush, but I shall expect you back in ten minutes.

(OLIVER notices a portrait on the wall.)

OLIVER

She's a very pretty lady, isn't she, sir?

MR. BROWNLOW

Yes, it's a portrait of my daughter, Agnes.

OLIVER

I'll take the books then sir.

MR. BROWNLOW

(staring at the portrait)

Yes... you take the books.

(OLIVER exits.)

DR. GRIMWIG

Ha! You don't really expect him to come back, do you? With a new suit of clothes on his back and a five pound note in his pocket? My dear Mr. Brownlow, if he does I'll eat my head.

MR. BROWNLOW

Dr. Grimwig. Look at that portrait. Don't you see an extraordinary resemblance between Oliver and my daughter Agnes?

DR. GRIMWIG

Can't say I do.

MR. BROWNLOW

Well, in ten minutes Dr. Grimwig, when the boy returns, I think you will see.

DR. GRIMWIG

Yes Mr. Brownlow, ten minutes.

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