Teaching Shannon part30
any advantage to be gotten by continuing to seem offended.
“Okay. Now, if you didn’t come here to apologize, why did you come?”
She looked confused and shy again, and again had trouble starting,
so I said, more gently, “Have you decided to take me up on my offer?”
For a moment she couldn’t answer; then she said, “Can you really
get me those grades?”
I thought a minute before answering, “Yes. At least, I think I
still can. I can certainly get the ones for my class and the summer,
and at least one of the grades for this semester. But why do you care
now if you didn’t care before?”
…End of the part30. To be continued..