“‘Of course you realise you’ll be teaching only the most junior boys.’ ‘Of course, sir.’ The school smelt as his own school had, of sweaty plimsolls and damp gabardine and Paul wished he could smoke as he struggled to keep up with the headmaster’s impatient quickness. A cigarette would at least be a distraction, something to keep the memories at bay. He remembered Jenkins lying in wait at the end of long school corridors and the bowel-loosening fear of what he might have in store for him. The me...mory made him feel ashamed but he willed himself forward, even as he imagined himself running back the way they had come, the startled headmaster staring after him. Adam had arranged this interview with the headmaster. The man had opened the school especially for him, taking a day from what he called “the wasteland” between Boxing Day and New Year to interview him. He raced a few steps ahead of Paul, his shoes squeaking on the parquet floor of the corridors and from time to time he flung open an empty classroom door, briskly shouting out its form number.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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