Pupils are hopelessly alienated by a procedure that exceeds the bounds
of propriety. Georgiana’s generous impulses were outraged by loss
threatened or actual of the luscious fruit. A teacher on the ground
before school opened would have found out what was about to happen, in
all likelihood, and could have forestalled it entirely. But if the
teacher directs these generous impulses, she will not only avoid
school-room disturbances, but she will be taken yet more intimately into
the confidence of her pupils.