she remembers encountering some of her husband 's fans a few years ago students she thought at the time probably former students of his they found her in town on a gloomy august evening just before nightfall out on the commons they converged on her three of them three men three young men and all of them with that coiled virility of youth that threat that brutal violent sexuality that frail restraint it was just after undertime which david 's fans had hated with such vehemence and there they were descending on her surrounding as though to bury her under the weight of their questions accusations insinuations all their witty sarcastic double-talk all that language of clever savagery which intelligent young men use especially when they are talking to an older woman all insecurities and resentments talking down to her and trying to impress her .