The People In The Castle: Selected Strange Stories - Plot & Excerpts
“Timothy, how often have I told you?” she said. “You have got to show your working. Even if these were the right answers—which they are not—I should give you no marks for them, because no working is shown. How, may I ask, did you arrive at this answer?” Her felt-tip made two angry red circles on the page. All Timothy’s neat layout—and the problems were tidily and beautifully set out, at least—all that neat arrangement had been spoiled by a forest of furious red X’s, underlinings, and crossings-out that went from top to bottom of the page, with a big W for Wrong beside each answer. The page was horrible now—like a scarred face, like a wrecked garden. Timothy could hardly bear to look at it. “Well? How did you get that answer? Do you understand what I’m asking you?” The trouble was that when she asked him a sharp question like that, in her flat, loud voice, with its aggressive north-country vowels—answer, ask, with a short a as in grab or bash—he felt as if she were hammering little sharp nails into his brain.
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