Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - BOOCarz

Bronwyn trooped out, nodding solemnly as they
passed. Next Miss Peregrine turned to us and said in
a low voice, “I am tremendously disappointed in you,
Miss Bloom. Tremendously. And of all the nights to
sneak away.”
“I’m sorry, Miss. But how was I to know something
bad would happen?”
“I should punish you. However, given the
circumstances, it hardly seems worth the effort.” She
raised a hand and smoothed her mentor’s white hair.
“Miss Avocet would never have left her wards to come
here unless something dire had taken place.”
The roaring fire made beads of sweat break out on
my forehead, but in her chair Miss Avocet lay
shivering. Would she die? Was the tragic scene that
had played out between my grandfather and me about
to play out again, this time between Miss Peregrine
and her teacher? I pictured it: me holding my
grandfather’s body, terrified and confused, never
suspecting the truth about him or myself. What was
happening now, I decided, was nothing like what had
happened to me. Miss Peregrine had always known
who she was.
It hardly seemed like the time to bring it up, but I
was angry and couldn’t help myself. “Miss
Peregrine?” I began, and she looked up. “When were
you going to tell me?”
She was about to ask what, but then her eyes went
to Emma, and she seemed to read the answer on her
face. For a moment she looked mad, but then she
saw my anger, and her own faded. “Soon, lad. Please
understand. To have laid the entire truth upon you at
our first meeting would have been an awful shock.
Your behavior was unpredictable. You might’ve fled,
never to return. I could not take that risk.”
“So instead you tried to seduce me with food and
fun and girls while keeping all the bad things a