Morgan Clarke, the little clever imp, didn't wait for Nelly Woods to explain. Clinging to Cindy Clarke's leg, he shouted loudly, "Arthur Woods said I'm a bastard without a father. He said my mom doesn't have self-respect, and that she had me at a young age without being married. He also said..."
The headmaster could not allow him to continue speaking. This little fellow is really too clever.
Arthur Woods is just a child, and it's indeed excessive for him to say these things.
Moreover, everyone present is not foolish.
How would a child know these things?
It must have been the adults who mentioned these things and the child remembered them.
Nelly Woods must have often bad-mouthed Cindy Clarke at home.
The headmaster hurriedly said: "This... isn't that really what Arthur Woods said? He's still so young, how could he know these things?"
