But Mr Wolfe seems to have the matter well in hand, and she has other business to attend to. Mary Lennox is not the only pupil who needs extra monitoring in this school, and now she has to make time to report to Hannah about the new servant girl's apparent inability to remember her place.
"Very well," she says to Galadan, the pinched irritation relaxing slightly. "Thank you."
"And you," she adds sternly to Mary, "shall see me later this evening. It seems you need some reminders of behavior proper to a young lady. Which, by the way, does not include screwing your face up in such a disagreeable manner."
"Good day, Mr Wolfe," she tells him, polite again, and sails off towards the back door (not the servants' one, of course) and her own work.
River, crouched over the lavender, watches the teacher depart, and her face is sober and hard to read.
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But Mr Wolfe seems to have the matter well in hand, and she has other business to attend to. Mary Lennox is not the only pupil who needs extra monitoring in this school, and now she has to make time to report to Hannah about the new servant girl's apparent inability to remember her place.
"Very well," she says to Galadan, the pinched irritation relaxing slightly. "Thank you."
"And you," she adds sternly to Mary, "shall see me later this evening. It seems you need some reminders of behavior proper to a young lady. Which, by the way, does not include screwing your face up in such a disagreeable manner."
"Good day, Mr Wolfe," she tells him, polite again, and sails off towards the back door (not the servants' one, of course) and her own work.
River, crouched over the lavender, watches the teacher depart, and her face is sober and hard to read.