... has to warn his father not to give away too much information - the teacher involved is the boy's own class teacher and the mother intends to protect her son from the realisation. Luckily, their son fails to make the connection from his father's mispronunciation of the teacher's surname ("Webber") to his own teacher, Miss Webster. This is an example of the adult world - parents having to look forward in advance to keep their young children protected. It becomes apparent to the reader that the boy is besotted with the idea of his teacher having promised to take the class to see the newly-sprung spring snowdrops. He has never seen the flowers before, and can scarcely imagine them; only as "one flake of falling snow, bitterly frail and white, and nothing like a flower". On this day, the day of the Merediths' boy's funeral, Miss Webster arrives late, obviously in ...

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