Teaser Tuesdays: The Sense of an Ending

This week, my teaser lines come from The Sense of an Ending, this year's Booker Prize winner by Julian Barnes. It's a beautifully written book and I'm really enjoying it. This excerpt comes from pp. 24-25 -- and as usual, it's more than a couple of lines (sorry). Oh, and when the narrator says "back then," he's talking about the 1960s:

I'd better explain what the concept of "going out" with someone meant back then, because time has changed it....Back in "my day"...this is what used to happen: you met a girl, you were attracted to her, you tried to ingratiate yourself, you would invite her to a couple of social events -- for instance, the pub -- then ask her out on her own, then again, and after a good-night kiss of variable heat, you were somehow, officially, "going out" with her. Only when you were semi-publicly committed did you discover what her sexual policy might be. And sometimes this meant her body would be as tightly guarded as a fisheries exclusion zone.

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