"Well... Eobald is a very fine teacher, of course, but he pays too much attention to how his favorite students

"Well... Eobald is a very fine teacher, of course, but he pays too much attention to how his favorite students perform in class, and not enough to their... extracurricular activities. Why worry if they steal a trinket here or there, or maybe rough someone up on occasion, so long as their poetry and music are exemplary? Predictably, this led to a sad end — what was supposed to be just another innocent joke from one of his favorites, Alondi, led to someone's death. It was an accident, certainly — the kids just underestimated their own strength."