读后感

It tells the story of a penniless college student who chooses to work as a tutor to earn money for his survival, thus forming a deep friendship with an 11-year-old pupil. The pupil, who suffers from heart disease and is out of character with the rest of his family, hopes to live with his tutor forever, but this backfired. The novel's tragic ending is both classic and ironic.The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to take leave, treating his engagement as settled, without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat jewelled hand and, at once pressing and gliding, repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear.