saying things like, ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES.
He turned toward Lily and noticed to his satisfaction that her ribbons were, as usual, undone and dangling.
There would be an announcement like that quite soon, he felt certain,
and it would be directed mainly at Lily, though her name, of course, would not be mentioned.
Everyone would know. Everyone had known, he remembered with humiliation, that the announcement ATTENTION.
THIS IS A REMINDER TO MALE ELEVENS THAT OBJECTS ARE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE RECREATION AREA
AND THAT SNACKS ARE TO BE EATEN, NOT HOARDED had been specifically directed at him, the day last month that he had taken an apple home.
No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse.
He had, of course, disposed of the apple and made his apology to the Recreation Director the next morning, before school.
Jonas thought again about that incident. He was still bewildered by it.
Not by the announcement or the necessary apology; those were standard procedures, and he had deserved them—but by the incident itself.
He probably should have brought up his feeling of bewilderment that very evening when the family unit had shared their feelings of the day.
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