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Everybody … think back four hundred years … how much do you think a meal for two would have cost SimpleSimon and NottaPenny?
AUDIENCE
(Distinct murmuring. However, nobody is volunteering an answer.)
FULLYCHARGED
(Whispering.)
About twenty pennies?
HAYLEY
(Whispering.)
Don’t be so stupid, they had old money in those days!
BENET
One hundred sovereigns!
A meal for two with two drinks … one hundred sovereigns!
In the cheap places!
Double that if you go to a posh place like this one.
(All the locals know that Magnum Opus is the best and the most expensive place in town.)
Marcus, how much is a nice glass of wine in your fine establishment?
MARCUS
(Once again, honesty is the best policy. MARCUS responds confidently.)
Twenty two pennies.
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