Part 3, Chapter 15 Summary

After the next school term starts, Colin and Stafford start spending more time together as friends. In fact, Stafford buys an expensive tie clip in a store and gives it to Colin as a present. Colin doesn't quite know what to make of this but Ellen tells him that he must return the gesture.

Colin continues to attend Sunday school with Ian Bletchley and Michael Reagan. Michael has changed over the summer, having grown taller and is now wearing long pants instead of a child's shorts. As Colin continues to grow into a young man, he's learning to stick up for the things and people he believes in. This leads him to a fistfight with Batty after Batty teases Ian about his heavy weight. Both Batty and Colin were bloodied in the fight. Harry Saville was proud of his boy; Ellen...