Title: The killjoy
Author: Anne Fine

Main characters: Alicia Anna Davie (19 years old) and professor Ian Laidlaw(49 years old)

Summary:
In a late afternoon seminar in the department of politics of a Scottish university, a student was talking on about an essay that he wrote, and Professor Laidlaw tried to cut him short twice with one of his most characteristic phrases: 'Quite so. Quite so.' On the second time, Laidlaw heard a tiny noise, and he realized that it was one of the other students. Alicia Anna Davie had got the giggles.
Laidlaw decided to ask her a question: 'I'm interested, Alicia, in your opinion of Stuart's point.' (He was a great man for diminutives.). But when he greeted her answer with yet another: 'Quite so. Quite so,' she exploded in an uncontrollable laughter. He stared at her with joy; for the first time in years he knew what it was to be pleased by another person again.
His gratitude was strange, however. After she recovered herself, she smiled at him......

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Title: Killjoy
Approximate Word Count: 1540
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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