CHAPTER SIX
At Redprick University, if I may coin a name, my name was now habitually coupled with Lena's, almost as often as I was coupled with Lena; which was in rooms, railway compartments, shop doorways, dry ditches and the college refectory (though not at mealtimes), sitting, standing or lying as the opportunity afforded. Rarely in bed, for we rarely had a chance.
We did it with zest, and made it a point of honour not to speak of love. If we were separated for a day, we wrote notes to each other-about a new gramophone record, or the syllabus of the debating club.
But for my self-esteem, and the exercise of freedom, and for the feeding of that healthy appetite between my thighs which asked for a less monotonous diet, I had to hunt up some new women for myself. Lena was all very well,
