Concetti Chiave
- Miss Meadows is a song teacher who expresses her emotions through the music she teaches.
- She is visibly distressed after receiving a letter from her boyfriend, indicating he doesn't want to marry her.
- Her sadness is reflected in the way she conducts her singing lesson, with each note filled with mournfulness.
- During the lesson, Miss Meadows receives a telegram suggesting her boyfriend, Basil, has attempted suicide.
- Miss Wyatt, a colleague, questions the seriousness of the telegram, which Miss Meadows dismisses unless it's related to death.
Miss Meadows e la lettera
Miss Meadows, a teacher of song, in cap and with a little baton during a lesson with some girls, receives a letter from her boyfriend who doesn't want to get married. She shows her emotions through the songs that she teaches to her class: she is sad and doesn’t feel the yellow chrysanthemum like usually.
Il telegramma di Miss Wyatt
Every note was a sigh, a sob, a groan of awful mournfulness Then Miss Wyatt gives a telegram to Miss Meadows in which it’s said that Basil has tried the suicide. Miss Wyatt asks if it was something of seriousness, but she says that was of her boyfriend. Miss affirms that doesn’t approve telegrams if not for serious news like in case of death.