Awakening: The World Dreamt and Imagined by Otto Mäkilä Page #3

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this is Miss Florence Cathcart.

An educated woman.

Well, well, well. Glad you're here.

Presume you know

you've a matron to thank.

So I believe. Glad I can be of service.

Child dying before a parent.

Dreadful thing.

I lost three of them.

I imagine you don't believe

in the afterlife, Miss Cathcart.

No, I don't.

Terrible, isn't it?

Mr Mallory will give

you a tour of the school.

I'm on my way to the dining room

should you wish to see it.

Mr Mallory.

So I'm the guide now?

He's coming. He's coming.

After supper there's an hour of scrubs,

that's compulsory reading to you.

Then lights out at 8:00.

I'll show you where Walter was found.

I'd like to see everywhere

the boys claim to have seen the ghost.

And perhaps you'd ask Maud to join us?

Most of the sightings

were in here, including Walter's.

In fact, he was found outside

here on the terrace.

Many of the boys are now

too frightened to come in here.

Mr Mallory.

She doesn't like any superfluous sound.

"Ego contemno Latin." I hate Latin.

That you, Mallory?

Walter was found there.

Mr Broad found him

just before breakfast.

- And these doors were locked?

- Mmm-hmm.

Did he have a bear or a toy animal?

- It's in the front office, yes.

- Could you?

You don't like him.

I have my reasons.

It would be indiscreet.

Where are his glasses?

He used to keep up the pretence.

Used to have a limp, too.

Kept him out of the trenches.

- His mother couldn't bear to keep it.

- Thank you.

And this was still on his bed

the morning he was found?

Yes.

You said there were other sightings

elsewhere in the house?

Yes. Mostly in the west dormitory.

Maud, perhaps I could

leave this to you?

- Why aren't you at scrubs?

- My book, sir.

Are you all right?

And it's half-term tomorrow?

Boys with parents in

far-flung places stay behind.

Apart from that,

we have the place to ourselves.

Was he bullied?

They called him "Wheezy Walter".

He was asthmatic.

Who were his friends?

Did he have any friends?

Miss Cathcart, this is a good school.

But if you're different,

the wrong kind of different...

His isn't the only mattress like this.

"Then spake King Arthur

to Sir Bedivere."

"The sequel of today unsolders all"

"The goodliest fellowship

of famous knights."

"Whereof this world hold record.

"Such a sleep they sleep,

the men I loved."

"I think that we shall...

"We shall never more, at..."

"I think that we shall never more,

at any future time,

"Delight our souls

with talk of knightly deeds."

Dowden!

Now.

Matron, I presume you've brought this

young lady to my classroom for a purpose

besides subjecting her to the

outrageous behaviour of Mr Dowden?

Mr McNair. Boys,

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