An Affair to Forget by Hood Evelyn

Author:Hood, Evelyn [Hood, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Published: 2014-04-12T22:00:00+00:00

Eleven

“You’re going to have to help me,” Gareth said a few minutes later. “I’ve never written a script before, but you must have some knowledge of how they work.”

“I’ve read one or two and seen plays in rehearsal, but I’ve never written one.”

He shot an irritated look at her. “You’ll have to do better than that if you want to get me out of your hair. Forget about being coy, Morrin, I believe Kennedy when he says that you’ve read my book from cover to cover several times. So talk to me about it!”

“Well…” She hesitated, staring down at the laptop’s flashing cursor. “It seems to me that you should divide the book up into sections then sort them out in order of priority.”

“Sounds like a good idea.” He stopped pacing and came to sit opposite, nodding. “I can see that working.”

Morrin took a deep breath then said carefully, “Your other problem is whether or not Vicki can play the part of Charlotte in a dramatised version.”

“You know perfectly well that I don’t see Vicki as Charlotte.”

“Why not?”

His eyes probed hers. “You know that already, don’t you?” he said, then, as her gaze dropped away from his, “Charlotte is honest and faithful, and when she loves it’s for ever. The man who loves her can never care for another woman. Charlotte must be… is… everything to him.”

Morrin’s mouth was dry and she had to take her hands quickly from the keyboard and fold them in her lap to hide their trembling. She had never heard Gareth sound so sincere.

“So,” he went on, suddenly brisk and matter-of-fact, “Vicki isn’t the right person to play her, and if you really have read the book properly you’ll agree with me.”

“I do,” she admitted.

“Then back me up by telling Kennedy what you think.”

“I’ve tried, believe me.” Then, as he threw his hands up in despair and got up from the chair to resume his pacing, “But you could look at Charlotte from another angle, taking her strengths and portraying them in a slightly different way through dialogue.”

“In other words…?” he prompted.

“In other words, concentrate on the angles that Vicki can develop and let the rest stay in the background.”

He came to stand over her, glowering. “Then it wouldn’t be my Charlotte.”

“No,” Morrin agreed, wincing inwardly at that possessive ‘my’, “but it would be the Charlotte that Sam saw in your book as soon as he read it. I’ve heard you say before that readers bring their own opinions to bear on every piece of writing, and what Sam sees is a version of Charlotte that Vicki could do. It’s quite usual for writers to angle characters in order to make them better stage or screenplay characters and you’ll still have the real Charlotte, your Charlotte, in your book. Nobody can spoil that picture of her. And,” she added as his eyes glazed over in deep thought, “you would reach another type of audience with the play.”

He squatted down by her chair, grinning. “In other words, my love, you think that I should cheat.

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