<They> Townspeople taking after-supper drives through the University grounds, or an oblivious and bemused
faculty member or candidate for a master's degree on his way to the library, <th> would see her, a snatched
coat under her arm and her long legs blonde with running, in speeding silhouette against the lighted
windows of the Coop, as the women's dormitory was known, vanishing into the shadow beside the library
wall, and perhaps a final squatting swirl of knickers or what-not as she sprang into the car waiting
there with its engine running on that particular night. The cars belonged to town boys. Students in the
University were not permitted to own cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs
– looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded hair, and coats
a little too short and trousers a little too full, with superiority and rage.