PLEASE HELP ASAP DUE SOON WIL MARK BRAINLIEST
(06.09A HC) Read the following excerpt from Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson. Then, respond to the question that follows. She sat shivering in the warm dim room shaded by the close sun-blinds. It looked as she had seen it with her father for the first time and Fräulein sitting near seemed to be once more in the heavy blue velvet dress. She waited stiff and ugly till Fräulein, secure and summer-clad, spoke softly again. "You think, my child, you shall like the profession of a teacher?" "Oh yes," said Miriam, from the midst of a tingling flush. "I think you have many qualities that make the teacher … You are earnest and serious-minded … Grave … Sometimes perhaps overgrave for your years … But you have a serious fault which must be corrected if you wish to succeed in your calling." Miriam tried to pull her features into an easy enquiring seriousness. A darkness was threatening her. "You have a most unfortunate manner." Without relaxing, Miriam quivered. She felt the blood mount to her head. "You must adopt a quite, quite different manner. Your influence is, I think, good, a good English influence in its most general effect. But it is too slightly so and of too much indirection. You must exert it yourself, in a manner more alive, you must make it your aim that you shall have a responsible influence, a direct personal influence. You have too much of chill and formality. It makes a stiffness that I am willing to believe you do not intend." Miriam felt a faint dizziness. "If you should fail to become more genial, more simple and natural as to your bearing, you will neither make yourself understood nor will you be loved by your pupils." "No——" responded Miriam, assuming an air of puzzled and interested consideration of Fräulein's words. She was recovering. She must get to the end of the interview and get away and find the answer. Far away beneath her fear and indignation, Fräulein was answered. She must get away and say the answer to herself. "To truly fulfil the most serious role