Question

What did the narrator expect from the boy? What was the reaction of the children when they heard the narrator's expectations?

Answer 1

The narrator expected the boys to address the girls as 'Miss'. He expected the boys to be clean and tidy in their appearance and their general behaviour and deportment must be 'top of the class'.

The children paid attention to the narrator while he was talking about his expectations and they one or two questions to ask the narrator afterwards. The students mentioned how Mr. Weston, another teacher, is untidy in his appearance and murmured their dissent when the narrator stated that another teacher is not a topic of discussion for them.