“Quite right, sugar-plum,” Mr Wormwood said, casting a look of such simpering sloppiness at his wife it would have made a cat sick.
Miss Honey decided that if she was going to get anywhere with these people she must not lose her temper.
“I haven't told you all of it yet,” she said. “Matilda, so far as I can gather at this early stage, is also a kind of mathematical genius.”
“She can multiply complicated figures in her head like lightning.”
“What's the point of that when you can buy a calculator?” Mr Wormwood said.
A girl doesn't get a man by being brainy,” Mrs Wormwood said.
Look at that film-star for instance,” she added, pointing at the silent TV screen
where a bosomy female was being embraced by a craggy actor in the moonlight.
You don't think she got him to do that by multiplying figures at him, do you? Not likely.”
And now he's going to marry her, you see if he doesn't, and she's going to live in a mansion with a butler and lots of maids.”
Miss Honey could hardly believe what she was hearing.
She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs,
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