The teacher slipped her hand into her pocket and drew out a lemon-drop, which she thrust softly into Jerome's hand.
"Here," said she.
Jerome, who treated usually a giver like a thief, took the lemon-drop, thanked her, and stood sucking it the rest of the recess.
It was his first gallantry towards womankind.
This teacher remained in the school only a half-term.

Some said that she left because she was not strong enough to teach such a large school.

Some said because she had not enough government.

This had always been considered a man's school during the winter months, but a departure had been made in this case because the female teacher was needy and a minister's daughter.
The place was filled by a man who never tempered injustice with lemon-drops, and ruled generally with fair and equal measure.

He was better for the school, and Jerome liked him; but he felt sad, though he kept it to himself, when the woman teacher went away.