Ellwood behind his back: “We all know what Ellwood gets up to when he calls boys in to look at the lower-school cricket teams….” Ellwood burnt through people. He didn’t want them, once he’d had them. He thought of Ellwood leaning against him, fully clothed in that empty bathtub. “You’re just passing the time until you can marry Maud, aren’t you?” “Yes, I suppose so.”
