But though I know I should have suffered for it afterwards, it would have done me a world of good to hear somebody tell her his real opinion of her for once.

I should like," calmly, "to see her writhe; she makes me writhe very often." "This is a bad school for you," says the professor hurriedly.
"Yes?
Then why don't you take me away from it ?" "If I could----but----Well, I shall see," says he vaguely.
"You will have to be very quick about it," says she.

Her tone is quite ordinary; it never suggests itself to the professor that there is meaning beneath it.
"You have _some_ friends surely ?" says he.
"There is a Mrs.Constans who comes here sometimes to see Aunt Jane.

She is a young woman, and her mother was a friend of Aunt Jane's, which accounts for it, I suppose.

She seems kind.