Soňa’s Reviews > Claudine at School > Status Update

That odd little creature who had neither heart nor brain, who lived without memory and without remorse, would begin all over again. She would humbug an assistant-master and romp with the District Superintendent until there was another crisis, and she would live quite contentedly with that jealous, violent woman who was going to pieces as a result of these adventures.

‘No, zealous teacher, you couldn’t care less about the new assistant. It’s the other one, Mademoiselle Lanthenay, who takes up all your thoughts, and you were up in your room with her, kissing her full on the mouth.’

As for myself, I’m not quite so interested in her since I’ve discovered what a traitress she is. And I feel quite empty; empty of my tenderness; empty of my fierce misery of that first evening.