not fully mature
“half shy, half assertive”
alchoholic
“squiffy”
irresponsible
“in that starte when a chap easily turns nasty”
that - determiner (commonly shared belif)
chap - third poerson
admits guilt
“And that’s when it happened. And i don’t even remember - that’s the hellish thing”
short centences / hyphen perics distress
not close with dad
“not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
responsible
“We did her in all right”
plural personla pronoun - we
“it’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters”