Good evening, Miss Thatcher.
Good evening. Thank you for coming.
You're welcome.
Please sit here across from me.
I--I thought we were gonna have some dinner together.
We will. You said you wanted to be friends, and right now I could use a friend to help me with this.
Right. Right.
I'm going to be administering an intelligence test. The research shows that some of the smartest students are also the slowest readers--
And my taking this test helps you how?
I need someone to practice on, you'll be my guinea pig.
Guinea pig.
Yes. Now scientists are using guinea pigs for their experimentation. Alright. It's a written test, but I'd like to open with a question to assess your basic comprehension level. I want to make sure you can follow simple instructions.
OK.
Pay me a compliment.
I don't understand.
It's a simple test to determine whether you can follow directions.
Oh. I see. [pause] I admire how dedicated you are to your students.
Elizabeth looks away.
Not good?
There's no good or bad, it's only an opportunity to assess your ability to follow directions.
No, I want to change my answer.
Well, that's very unorthodox, but you may.
You look really beautiful tonight.
Very good. Please take your pencil, turn over your pages and begin. You will have one hour to complete the test. Then we can have dinner.
[looks at the complexity of the test] Come on.
What?
Really?
It will show your ability to [reads instructions] to perform prehension provoked by visual perception.
That's a lot of p-words I didn't quite grasp.
Well here's another p-word for you. Please?
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