"The schoolmistress assured her landlady that she could return the sentiment. 'But here comes my perplexity' she said. 'I don't like keeping school. Ah you are surprised--you didn't suspect it. That's because I've concealed my feeling. Well I simply hate school. I don't care for children-- they are unpleasant troublesome little things whom nothing would delight so much as to hear that you had fallen down dead. Yet I would even put up with them if it was not for the inspector. For three months before his visit I didn't sleep soundly. And the Committee of Council are always changing the Code so that you don't know what to teach and what to leave untaught. I think father and mother are right. They say I shall never excel as a schoolmistress if I dislike the work so and that therefore I ought to get settled by marrying Mr Heddegan. Between us two I like him better than school; but I don't like him quite so much as to wish to marry him."