Naughty Arlette Page #2

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-Good Morning -Good Morning

Sit down please

Now I have here a list with all your names

I think the best way for me to get to know you

is for you to tell me your names,when you answer my questions

I understand from Miss Hallam

your are accustomed to being called by your christian names

As I have been teaching boys recently

I shall find that rather difficult to remember first

One thing I should like to make quite clear

I expect you to keep order and discipline in class

not make me have to enforce it

And I hope you won't take advantage of the fact that I can't use the same

discipline methods with use for members of the opposite sex

I'm sure if we understand each other from the beginning

we'll all get on very well

I like him

I believe that last term

you began to studying the lives of the early 19th century poets

So you will already realize how closely those lives

if not their actual work are related to each other

This term I propose to continue with Shelley

I wonder how old he is

Will you repeat that question,please

Now if any of you have any questions will you please stand up

First of all what is your name

Ivy Morris

I really wondered how old Shelley was

If you mean at the time of his death he was 29

My age is quite irrelevant

You all studied Leigh Hunt last term

so you should recall the tragic circumstances of Shelley's untimely death

He was returning home..

Was it when Shelley crossed the bay in an open sailing boat

at 2' 10" bow topsail rig to welcome Leigh Hunt to Italy?

Yes but to be more precise

it was after he had a week's visit with Leigh Hunt in Pisa

He and his friend Williams were sailing home across the bay

and they were never seen alive again

Byron named the boat Don Juan

Don Juan,hm,hm

What's your name?

Arlette Tesserau

T-E-S-S-E-R-A-U

Stand up when you speak to me,please

-You're French? -Oui,Monsieur

In my study at the end of the corridor

you'll find a pile of Shelley books, go and get them for me,will you

You expect me to fetch your books for you?

I thought that gentlemen fetch things for a lady,not the other way about

No,the pupil fetches things for her Master

Hurry up

Come in

I checked all the health certificates, they are in order

Thank you,Miss Sankey

Isn't Mrs Dickson a beautiful pianist?

I wonder how Mr Dickson is getting on with his first lesson

No doubt most constructive for all concerned

What are you implying,Miss Sankey?

I don't think it is right

that a man should be thrown in amongst a lot of young girls

Thrown in,am I to believe you feel there is something immoral about it?

I admit I had my misgivings about the experiment,Miss Hallam

In the past whenever a visiting Master is come to the school

a chaperone has always been present at the lessons

In the case of a Music Master giving a private lesson,yes

but Mr Dickson position is quite different

and I want the girls to learn to accept him

as a resident member of the staff,one of ourselves

Who will,so to speak,sharing their daily life and interests

It's up to you,of course Miss Hallam, but isn't he rather young?

Come,come,Sankey,however susceptible schoolgirls may be

Mr Dickson is a serious and studious married man

with his own daughter in the school

Married,yes,but what kind of a woman

an ex professional pianist

who dresses more like a filmmaker's than a school teacher's wife

I'm sure your fears are quite unfounded

I sincerely hope so,we shall see

Shelley was a great reformer

he was passionately resolved to try improve the existing conditions of mankind

Perhaps no poet has ever fired with such genuine inspiration

Leigh Hunt once described him as..

Sir,which is Leigh Hunt's most famous poem?

I suppose one of the best known

you'll find in most of the anthologies is called "Jenny kiss'd Me"

What's your name?

Jenny

Born in 1792 when the French revolution was at its height

he grew up at a time when the Prince Regent was..

What's your name?

All right,you may swallow first

Now tell me your name

Bessie Spendlow

This isn't a cafeteria

I know

Haven't you had any breakfast?

Yes,but I never get enough to eat

As our time is nearly out,you'll be able to finish your meal outside

I hope our next lesson will be less interrupted

The preparation I suggest you write a summary of all I said this morning

All I have said that is the subject of Shelley

Arlette

I didn't give you permission to go

The bell is rung

Yes I know I heard it

Sit down,please

Thank you,you may go now

Arlette

I'm sorry

I thought you said your father was always in a good temper

He's really terribly kind and sweet

It is just in school he insists on discipline

And out of school?

You would love him,really you would

But I think he hates me

Rubbish.You must come to our house one day and see him properly

Properly? Oh,no

But you must come to my house one Sunday,next Sunday?

Yes

-We are friends -Of course

Good

There is one girl,a french girl

This is to be handled rather carefully

She was a boy the remedy be obvious and simple

A good sound spanking

She is conceited and spoiled

Ultra sophisticated,or try to be

All together,a rather disturbing influence

On the class I mean

-What's her name? -Arlette

Arlette Tesserau

She has been very kind to me

I was talking to your mother

Yes I know,I didn't mean to interrupt but

Arlette is really a rather nice girl, and she is from Paris

That's no excuse for being impertinent

I don't think she is the kind of a girl I like you to be friends with

Do you mean you don't want me even to speak to her?

No I didn't say that

I just said that I didn't want you to make a close friend with her

It would be rather interesting to know what this Arlette thinks about you

I think he is an insufferable vain, spoilt stupid boring,badly dressed

and that mustache,those glasses, nobody would think he is wonderful

because he is can never attract another girl

but he'll see,I'll show him

I'll back him against you any time

Then you would lose

I'll put my money on Arlette,there is no holding once she gets under way

Is there Arlette?

I have never seen it

Our Arnold is a tougher proposition

than any pimpley schoolboy who would fall for anything

I don't waste my talent on pimpley schoolboys,as you call them

And I can see that Monsieur Dickson

though he doesn't know it,is just the real vignette of romantic age

She has got something there

Middle age.When a man stops trying to dodge temptations

and starts checking up if he is missed any

I always been told that the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach

Bessie,don't you ever think of anything but food

I could easily twist him around my little finger,if I wanted to

Then try it

Perhaps I will

In the meantime Mr Dickson is quite oblivious to your charm or your existence

He is not

Then if he isn't it is simply because he dislikes you intensely

And I dislike you intensely

I can assure you the feeling is mutual

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