This , rather genteel lady wrote to the schoolmaster inquiring about the wc .
这位颇有上流社会意识的夫人写信给校长，询问有关厕所的问题。
The narrator tom crick is a middle-aged schoolmaster looking back on his war-time schoolboy romance with mary , a sexually adventurous convent schoolgirl .
Every morning , the students would assemble in rows for a military-style call to order ; on a stool to one side sat a schoolmaster with a cane , ready to discipline boys who misbehaved , by beating them on the soles of their bare feet .
" The child ought to have been at school a year ago , and most certainly this last winter , " said the pastor . " The schoolmaster sent you word about it , but you gave him no answer . What are you thinking of doing with the child , neighbor ? "
But brigitta told her not to be so foolish as to give it away ; she would not think of taking such a beautiful hat ; if heidi did not want to wear it she might sell it to the schoolmaster 's daughter in dorfli and get a good deal of money for it .
