After this, Tom was late for school, and the teacher looked at him angrily.
‘Thomas Sawyer, why are you late again?’ he said.
Tom began to speak, and then he stopped. There was a new girl in the schoolroom – a beautiful girl with blue eyes and long yellow hair. Tom looked and looked. Oh, how beautiful she was! And in two seconds Tom was in love! He must sit next to her. But how?
In the girls’ half of the room there was only one empty chair, and it was next to the new girl. Tom thought quickly and then looked at the teacher.
‘I stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn!’ he said.
The teacher was very, very angry. Boys were always late for school. That was bad, but talking with Huckleberry Finn was worse, much worse! The teacher took his stick, and two minutes later Tom’s trousers were very hot and the teacher’s arm was very tired.
‘Now, Tom Sawyer, you go and sit with the girls!’
