Ariel Lawhon

He has the look of a man who was recently handsome but doesn’t know what to do with himself now that’s he’s turned the corner of bald and portly.

She has always found that teachers are the least teachable of all people.

“A historian who burns his archives,” she says, bending over the bench and getting as close to the withered old tutor as possible, “is like a corpse that stinks.”