The William Trevor Reader: “Miss Smith”
“Miss Smith” is one of my favorites , a nasty little number that would feel right at home in ’s early story collection, . James Machen is ritually humiliated by his teacher Miss Smith, whom he becomes obsessed with pleasing and then, when she cannot be pleased, hurting. He begins a shadow campaign of endangering her new baby—throwing glass in its pram, sneaking into Miss
