“I knew it!”
“That’s too mean.”
“There’s not another teacher left.”
“What’ll we do?”
“Leave it to me,” Louise said slowly. “I think I can fix it, I’ll go talk to her. Wait here for me.” And she was gone.
The girls waited, carrying on a fragmentary conversation, and in less than fifteen minutes Louise returned. She was met by a volley of questions:
“Will she go?”
“What did she say?”
“Tell us the worst.”
“How did you fix it?”