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Dakin has just returned from his scholarship exam and interview at Oxford University. Over the course of his studies, he has grown to admire and desire Irwin, his young teacher. Irwin is an enigma to Dakin, and the student is intrigued by him. Dakin is charming, handsome, flirtatious, with a high sex drive. Now that the pressure of the exam is over, he wants to say thank you to Irwin in the best way he knows how.
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START: DAKIN: In the room I stayed in there was a handbook to the colleges, list of previous undergraduates and that. I looked you up only you weren’t there.
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END: IRWIN: I was going to be working, going through the accounts of Roche Abbey. It was a Cistercian house just to the south of Doncaster. Only I think I just had a better offer.
DAKIN: I think you did. And we’re not in the subjunctive either. It is going to happen.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, pp. 119-123.
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