Ovington heard the man's lightly treading step pass away over the lawn, the shrubbery brushed against him noisily, and then the silence slipped back over the place and the faintly moving air shook the fountain into light showerings of spray […]

It's close to the sprawling University of Birmingham campus and the ever-growing Queen Elizabeth Hospital site, which also includes a large medical school.

And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia, who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.

He likes the cut and thrust, the falls, bruises, and dry blows of an argument: as to any good or useful results that may come of the amicable settling of it, any one is welcome to them for him.