The Pupil

Henry James counted The Pupil among his finest tales. A poor young tutor is engaged by a shabby-genteel family perpetually drifting through the hotels of Europe, and discovers that his pupil — a frail, precocious boy — is the cleverest person in the household and the only one ashamed of what the others are. The boy's education is learning exactly what his parents are; the tutor's is discovering wh...