My view

"Pupil" tells the story of a penniless college student who chooses to earn money as a tutor in order to survive, and thus forms a deep friendship with the 11-year-old pupil. The pupil, who suffers from heart disease and is at odds with the rest of his family, had hoped to live with his tutor forever, but it didn't work out that way. The novel's tragic ending is both classic and ironic. Can you doubt it after such a description of what I shall hear?" Pemberton replied. Yet he didn't want to come at all; he was coming because he had to go somewhere, thanks to the collapse of his fortune at the end of a year abroad spent on the system of putting his scant patrimony into a single full wave of experience. He had had his full wave but couldn't pay the score at his inn. Moreover he had caught in the boy's eyes the glimpse of a far off appeal.