“Did you, or did you not throw an electric lamp on the floor during the algebra lesson, Isabelle?”
“I dropped one on the floor.”
“Don’t equivocate! You threw it”—sternly.
“All right; I threw it”—defiantly.
“Why did you do it?”
“To wake up the class. If you knew how dull that hour is you wouldn’t blame me.”
“Don’t be impertinent!”
“Miss Marshall is a fool. If you ask her a question outside the lesson she has to look it up in the book.”
“You are not here to criticize your teachers, you are here to account for your misbehaviour.”