(A note is picked up by the soundtrack and the choir who enter. JACK followed by SIMON, MAURICE and SAM and ERIC … ROGER enters and breaks away from the group and dives into a key sunbathing spot.)
JACK: Guide me CHOIR: Guide me! JACK: I am mighty CHOIR: You are mighty! JACK: You are weak CHOIR: We are weak! JACK: Aaaa … CHOIR: Men!
JACK: Where’s the man with the trumpet? In a line! Come on! In a line! You have to keep in a line otherwise … SIMON: Otherwise what, Merridew? JACK: Otherwise … You have to keep line. That’s all. SIMON: I’m hot. JACK: Who was blowing the trumpet? RALPH: Me … You’re the choir? JACK: Yes. RALPH: You’re good. JACK: I thought it was a grown-up. I got them to sing. RALPH: You’re good. JACK: I’m a choir prefect. The others are slacking. And so are you. Come on! RALPH: I’m Ralph. JACK: Merridew. That’s Cambourne. That’s Walsh. That’s – SAM: Sam ERIC: ’N Eric SAM/ERIC: Samneric JACK: They’re all slack. Are we going to have proper names or what? Like school?
