That doesn’t mean she was right to assume it was invented.”

Clara considered that.

She didn’t want her mother to say Ms.

Harrow was bad.

She wanted someone to tell her exactly what was wrong with the report.

If the certification sentence needed a source, she could provide one.

If the rank joke was confusing, she could make the joke clear.

She wasn’t asking to receive a good grade simply because her father was a Marine.