"Miss Scatcherd is hasty--you must take care not to offend her; Madame
Pierrot is not a bad sort of person."
"But Miss Temple is the best--isn't she?"
"Miss Temple is very good and very clever; she is above the rest, because
she knows far more than they do."
"Have you been long here?"
"Two years."
"Are you an orphan?"
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"My mother is dead."
"Are you happy here?"
"You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for
the present: now I want to read."
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