Monica is a student at the girls’ school. When Miss Meadows is teaching the singing class, Monica interrupts and enters the classroom to say that Miss Wyatt has a telegram for Miss Meadows. While she walks up the aisle of the classroom, she is “hanging her head, biting her lips and twisting the silver bangle on her red little wrist” which appear to be anxious gestures, but Miss Meadows describes her walking “fussily,” which suggests a lack of sympathy from Miss Meadows in her despair.