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When Miss Meadows explains to her students what kind of emotion they should express while singing their autumn song, she transfers her despair to them. Earlier in the story, she transmits despair to Mary Beazley by being unkind to her when she offered Miss Meadows a flower. This time, it’s her tone of voice that makes Mary shiver. Soon, many of the girls in the class begin to cry because of how completely they take on Miss Meadows’s emotion through singing this song with the emotional tenor she describes.
This quote suggests that Mary is especially susceptible to this emotional…