Chapter 5 • At Rustem’s
For Dimitri, the change was truly radical. Unlike the Pancyprian, which was squashed into the centre of the Old Town, the English School occupied a large area in the suburb of Strovolos, a mile and a half to the south-west of Paphos Gate. Dimitri was full of admiration for the neo-Gothic architecture of the buildings, the wooded area around them, the playing fields, the school uniform; everything about it reminded him of English picture books for children which he had been given to read when he was little. The school promised him a life in a world he had only dared to dream about.
Apart from the schoolbooks provided, pupils were encouraged to add to their cultivation with further reading, which they could choose from a prescribed list. And so on one Saturday morni
