“As we jumped the tiny hedge because we couldn't be bothered with the tiny gate to set off on our running, I inhaled the early evening light and realized this was softening, what others might...”

“even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so.”

“also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing.”

“how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man”