A boy Kathy likes late in her time at Hailsham, Henry seems surprised when Kathy offers to have sex with him, and equally surprised when Kathy makes several excuses as to why she is then unable to sleep with Henry. Kathy wonders, while “courting” Henry, if she doesn’t also have feelings for Tommy, who is dating Ruth.
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Henry Character Timeline in Never Let Me Go
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Chapter 8
...temper tantrums. Kathy resolved that she herself would begin having sex, and picked a boy, Henry, as her intended “mate,” not because she liked him, but because she might “practice with...
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Chapter 9
Kathy recalls how she went about “courting” Henry: she told him once, when they were alone, that she wanted to have sex with...
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