Corvina tells them about the girl before anyone signs anything, standing up, in the hall, in front of four children and two inspectors.
It takes forty minutes. The senior inspector writes two pages and then says the school can have until June.
MioneI have never had a report taken off me before. I find I do not mind.
The girl stays. She is enrolled under her own name in September and there are ten pupils by the spring.
The charter sits in the vault with three names on it, one of them a woman who sold the library to pay for coal.