Miss Minchin

But they would bring them back to, to go to school in England for a while, and then come and get them when they were older.

And so she's off at Miss Minchin's Seminary.

Miss Minchin is just one of the worst, uh-

[laughs]

... people in the world.

Come on.

She's just-

Miss Minchin.

So he held her very closely in his arms as the cab rolled into the big, dull square in which stood the house which was their destination.

It was a big, dull brick house, exactly like all the others in its row, but that on the front door there shone a brass plate on which was engraved in black letters, "Miss Minchin, Select Seminary for Young Ladies." "Here we are, Sara," said Captain Crewe, making his voice sound as cheerful as possible.

Then he lifted her out of the cab, and they mounted the steps and rang the bell.

Sara often thought afterward that the house was somehow exactly like Miss Minchin.

It was respectable and well-furnished, but everything in it was ugly, and the very armchairs seemed to have hard bones in them.

In the hall, everything was hard and polished.

"Because you are such fun when you say them," he answered, laughing still more.

And then suddenly, he swept her into his arms and kissed her very hard, stopping laughing all at once and looking almost as if tears had come into his eyes.