You may sit down.

Cyrus, since it seems you are the guilty person, take the eraser and wipe that off the board.

Then go stand in the corner, facing the room, and hold your arms straight above your head until I tell you to take them down." Cyrus obeyed and Cecily fled to her seat and wept, nor did Mr.Perkins meddle with her more that day.

She bore her burden of humiliation bitterly for several days, until she was suddenly comforted by a realization that Cyrus had ceased to persecute her.

He wrote no more letters, he gazed no longer in rapt adoration, he brought no more votive offerings of gum and pencils to her shrine.