‘What’s it got to do with the students?’ he said, mildly enough, he thought. ‘It’s traditional, isn’t it? That students are politically engaged. If we were still students, we’d be protesting.’ She went back to the paper. ‘I would anyway.’ She was provoking him. Fine, if that’s what she wanted. ‘So why aren’t you?’ She looked at him sharply. ‘What?’ ‘Protesting. If you feel so strongly.’ ‘That’s exactly my point. Maybe I should be! That was exactly my observation! If there was some kind of cohesive movement …’
