On the other hand, Winter was unusually protective despite her usual delicate mannerisms, shielding Frank as she snapped, "F-Frank is a very busy man.”

Her classmates were certainly dissatisfied.

"That's sly, Winter!"

"Yeah, aren't you just keeping him to yourself?"

"It's alright, Winter."

Frank patted her head and smiled—he never received formal education himself and was therefore not averse to the students’ eagerness to learn. "If you're all interested, I'll try to make time for a lecture every month.”

"Once a month...?"

The students were all disappointed, though something was better than nothing.

Winter blushed even as she braced herself against the other girls’ pointed looks. "That's plenty! Frank is very busy!"

a solemn face just

him earnestly for his lesson, he was once again

left him clenching his

the lecture hall,

hours and littered the floor with cigarette

wheeling on one of his boys and smacking him on the head. "We're at a school! Why were you smoking? Clean that

man appeared wounded. "But that's your

cheek! Get a

"Okay..."

give in and

spoke at that. "So?

at the students around them. "Why don't we talk someplace else? This really isn't the place to talk about

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