“Do you like the little black one, and the Madame ---?

— I cannot pronounce her name as you do.”

“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?”

“My mother is dead.”