Soon his poetry book drops with a terrible crash to the ground, and five million pins stab Miss Jones's heart.

With white face and trembling hands, she says: "Go and stand in the corner, Jeremy! I shall have to speak to your mother!" He goes, grinning at Mary, and stands there knowing that his victim is watching the door in an agony lest Mrs.Cole should suddenly come in and inquire what Jeremy had done, and that so the whole story of his insubordination be revealed and Miss Jones lose her situation for incapacity.
How did he discover this final weakness of Miss Jones?
No one told him; but he knew, and, as the days passed, rejoiced in his power and his might and his glory.
Then came the climax.

The children were not perfectly sure whether, after all, Miss Jones might not tell their mother.

They did not wish this to happen, and so long as this calamity was possible they were not complete masters of the poor lady.

Then came a morning when they had been extremely naughty, when every game had been played and every triumph scored.