校长莫林·科贝特给家长们写了一封信，信中写道：“我写信是想告诉你们，这里发生了一起涉及一名学生的事件。”
The headteacher, Maureen Cobbett, sent a letter to parents which said, "I'm writing to let you know that there has been an incident involving a pupil."
他的母亲乔斯林•米德尔顿，57岁，是一家电子公司的业务员。 她说：“这封信所用的语言不是那种孩子会理解的语言”。
His mother Jocelyn Middleton, 57, a clerk in an electronics company, said: ''The language in the letter is not the sort of language a child would understand.
至于她们的母亲，原来的一般怨气已经被柯林斯先生一封信打消了不少，她倒准备相当平心静气地会见他，这使得她的丈夫和女儿们都觉得非常奇怪。
As for their mother, Mr. Collins's letter had done away much of her ill-will, and she was preparing to see him with a degree of composure which astonished her husband and daughters.
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