And indeed I'm not vain about it.

How can I be, when I'm such a dunce at geometry?
Although I'm really beginning to see through it a little, too.

Miss Stacy makes it so clear.

Still, I'll never be good at it and I assure you it is a humbling reflection.
But I love writing compositions.

Mostly Miss Stacy lets us choose our own subjects; but next week we are to write a composition on some remarkable person.