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Set initially in the summer of 1935, it tells the story of Cecilia, the eldest daughter of the wealthy Tallis family, and Robbie Turner, the son of the Tallis family housekeeper, who had been childhood friends. In this extract, set early in the novel in the grounds of the Tallis country estate, Cecilia and Robbie are reunited during a break from Cambridge University.  \nSample question  \nExamine the view that McEwan presents social class as a barrier to love in this extract.  \nMake close reference to the writer's methods in your response.  \nExtract  \nShe felt she had said something stupid. Robbie was looking away across the park and the cows towards the oak wood that lined the river valley, the wood she had run through that morning. He might be thinking she was talking to him in code, suggestively conveying her taste for the full-blooded and sensual. That was a mistake, of course, and she was discomfited and had no idea how to put him right. She liked his eyes, she thought, the unblended mix of orange and green, made even more granular in sunlight. And she liked the fact that he was so tall. It was an interesting combination in a man, intelligence and sheer bulk. Cecilia had taken the cigarette and he was lighting it for her.  \n‘I know what you mean,’ he said as they walked the remaining few yards to the fountain. ‘There’s more life in Fielding, but he can be psychologically crude compared to Richardson.’  \nShe set down the vase by the uneven steps that rose to the fountain’s stone basin. The last thing she wanted was an undergraduate debate on eighteenthcentury literature. She didn’t think Fielding was crude at all, or that Richardson was a fine psychologist, but she wasn’t going to be drawn in, defending, defining, attacking. She was tired of that, and Robbie was tenacious in argument.  \nInstead she said, ‘Leon’s coming today, did you know?’‘I heard a rumour. That’s marvellous.’  \n‘He’s bringing a friend, this man Paul Marshall.’  \n‘The chocolate millionaire. Oh no! And you’re giving him flowers!’  \nShe smiled. Was he pretending to be jealous to conceal the fact that he was? She no longer understood him. They had fallen out of touch at Cambridge. It had been too difficult to do anything else. She changed the subject.  \n‘The Old Man says you’re going to be a doctor.’‘I’m thinking about it.’  \n‘You must love the student life.’  \nHe looked away again, but this time for only a second or less, and when he turned to her she thought she saw a touch of irritation. Had she sounded condescending? She saw his eyes again, green and orange flecks, like a boy’s marble. When he spoke he was perfectly pleasant.  \n‘I know you never liked that sort of thing, Cee. But how else do you become adoctor?’  \n‘That’s my point. Another six years. Why do it?’  \nHe wasn’t offended. She was the one who was over-interpreting, and jittery in his presence, and she was annoyed with herself.  \nHe was taking her question seriously. ‘No one’s really going to give me work as a landscape gardener. I don’t want to teach, or go in for the civil service. And medicine interests me…’ He broke off as a thought occurred to him. ‘Look, I’ve agreed to pay your father back. That’s the arrangement.’  \n‘That’s not what I meant at all.’  \nShe was surprised that he should think she was raising the question of money. That was ungenerous of him. Her father had subsidised Robbie’s education all his life. Had anyone ever objected? She had thought she was imagining it, but infact she was right – there was something trying in Robbie’s manner lately. He had a way of wrong-footing her whenever he could. Two days before he had rung the front doorbell – in itself odd, for he had always had the freedom of the house. When she was called down, he was standing outside asking in a loud, impersonal voice if he could borrow a book. As it happened, Polly was on all fours, washing the tiles in the entrance hall. 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