“So what if the mere sight of Elizabeth Maclean still made my heart race? So what if my supposed schoolboy crush had not waned in the slightest after four years? So what if I’d wondered again and again whether Liz ever thought about the day we met the same way I did, or why she never asked for her clothes back? So what if they were still folded away at the back of a drawer in my bedroom just in case she did want them back?”