I open it. She reads for two hours and does not ask me a single question, which is worse than if she had.

Eleven names below the line. One of them is a boy who left in the spring and came back for a reference. Two of them are in her year and she knows both.

TamsinThis one is dated the week I got rank one.

HalvardIt was about you. It was about a thing you did in the corridor that nobody saw, and I decided the Tower did not need it, and I have no defence for that beyond the fact that I did not want to send it.