‘What kind of explanations?’
‘Oh, about the Swiss being under the Empire, or something, and she would go into parallels of Saxon words, and English poetry, such as our Fraülein never troubled us with. But I showed her it would not do.’
‘So instead of learning what you had not sense to appreciate, you wanted to teach your old routine.’
‘But, indeed, she could not pronounce at all well, and she looked ever so long at difficult bits, and then she even tried to correct me.’
‘Did she go on coming after you silenced her?’
‘Yes, and never tried to interfere again.’
‘I am afraid she drew her own conclusions about High Schools.’
‘Oh, Miss Elmore, you used to like us to be thorough and not discursive, and how could anybody brought up in this stultifying place, ages ago, know what will tell in an exam?’
‘Oh! Arthurine. How often have I told you that examinations are not education. I never saw so plainly that I have not educated you.’
‘I wanted to prepare Daisy and Pansy, and they didn’t care about her prosing when we wanted to get on with the book.’