The Go-Between

The diary was a Christmas present…

Strangely enough, though so idealistic…

The next day at break, I wandered about…

With an effort I took out the diary…

Chapter 1 – The eighth of July…

The last weeks of the Easter term…

Did I really believe that I had been responsible…

Chapter 2 – To my mind's eye…

I didn't possess the ordinary schoolboy's…

Chapter 3 – It all began with the weather…

It was indeed the beginning of a mild persecution…

I saw her trying to probe this mystery…

Chapter 4 – The expedition to Norwich…

From being my enemy the summer…

We were crossing the meadow…

The rushes rustled as the men walked out…

Chapter 5 – Breakfast at Brandham Hall…

Again the under-water dash to the chest…

Chapter 6 – I forget how we got into…

When I had got over the shock…

Chapter 7 – The thermometer stood…

I opened the gate and went in…

I stumped about on the stone flags…

I considered. I did not want to claim…

With that I had to be content.

Chapter 8 – One remembers things…

At last we came to what I had been…

Confused by the encounter…

Chapter 9 – Between the next day…

I should not be able to carry any more…

When they had gone I felt in my pockets…

Chapter 10 – Not Adam and Eve…

It was the best part of a mile to the farm.

'Between you and me,' he said…

Chapter 11 – Meteorologically Saturday…

I was very much taken aback…

The game was already under way…

Chapter 12 – I still have the scoring cards…

Another wicket fell and then another…

As the outgoing met the incoming batsman…

Chapter 13 – The supper at the village hall…

The new song was a sentimental one by Balfe.

I returned to my seat but not at once…

Chapter 14 – I remember Sunday morning…

All this was eminently satisfactory…

I was glad to have had the explanation…

Chapter 15 – All through luncheon…

For a time no thoughts would come to me…

I had let myself go on crying…

I handled the bat as reverently…

Chapter 16 – Brandham Hall, Near Norwich…

Marian was presiding over it.

Chapter 17 – On my way to pay my deferred…

In my excitement I forgot my dread…

Actually there was only one voice…

Chapter 18 – When I came down to breakfast…

As I was going out…

On Tuesday morning I found a letter…

Ever since I had arranged with mother…

Chapter 19 – I had told my mother…

We were turning into the drive…

I stared at him. I was not very observant…

Chapter 20 – On the tea-table lay my…

Children are more used than adults…

Our first meeting was uneventful.

I could not understand this at all…

Chapter 21 – My conversation with Marian…

What an Eden Brandham Hall had been…

It was dark as I expected it would be…

Chapter 22 – I slept deeply that night…

All the time at Brandham I had been another…

Again I had to break off and peep…

Chapter 23 – Luncheon was seldom…

The nearest gardener put down his tools…

I rose to do her bidding…

Epilogue – When I put down my pen…

I was able to winnow out other facts…

Thinking back to my past, lost self…

While he was gone I strolled about the street…

How happy, I thought, has my life been…