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Teacher , mine dear Teacher , could I be monitors off of the back of your dress ? '' `` But surely , you may , '' laughed Teacher , and Yetta entered straightway into the heaven of fulfilled desire . None of Eva 's descriptions of the joys of monitorship had done justice to the glad reality . After common mortals had gone home at three o'clock , Room 18 was transformed into a land where only monitors and love abounded . And the new monitor was welcomed by the existing staff , for she had supplanted no one , and was so palpitatingly happy that Patrick Brennan forgave her earlier usurpation of his office and Nathan Spiderwitz bestowed upon her the freedom of the window boxes . `` Ever when you likes you should have a crawley bug from off of the flowers ; you tell me und I 'll catch one fer you . I got lots .