1. Connell resists the impulse to take his phone from his pocket and check the time.
2. It wasn't the first time he'd had the urge to tell Marianne that he loved her, whether or not it was true, but it was the first time he'd given in and said it. He noticed how long it took her to say anything.
3. Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.
4. Rachel was sitting up on the windowsill with her legs swinging slowly back and forth, long and inky-black in opaque tights.
5. A thin white sweat had broken out on his hands and under his collar.
6. He breathes in, so his seatbelt digs into his ribs a little bit, and then exhales.
7. The smell of petrol infiltrates the car interior, heavy like a headache.
