Knowing the abuses at Kincora Boys' Home, it isn't hard to imagine at least some of these borstals were used the same way and were much more easily and successfully covered up.
The geometry of cold and the architecture of need. Calloway is finding his way of working the understandings.
Carter is looking after him as much as he can. It's not much, but better than nothing.
The French gifted a ship to Captain John Paul Jones to use against the British. He named it Bonhomme Richard to honor his friend Benjamin Franklin. He shouted his famous "I have not yet begun to fight" from her deck.
Bastien has more than turned Lawrence's head, he's turned him topsy turned. Lawrence can't think of much else. Like Icarus, he has already gotten too close to the Sun.
The pattern for well to do families is to send errant scions to a military school. I knew a graduate of one of those in college. He was a nutjob, carried a nasty 8 inch knife he made himself he called The Widowmaker.
There is the mention of unwashed bodies. All we've seen so far are washbasins and a trough urinal. Apparently cleanliness is next to godliness isn't a concept here.
The protection had a price, and you notice it had a lag. He let the abuse go just long enough for Calloway to know he needs the protection. It takes little imagination to know the price of protection when there are no physical goods.
You got a purty mouth boy.