Dill had left Maycomb at the end of the summer to return
to his home in Meridian, and Scout was "miserable" until she remembered that her first
day of school was just around the corner.
I never looked forward more to anything in my
life.
She had spent much of
her previous winter in the treehouse, spying on the children in the schoolyard with her
telescope, where she watched Jem playing games in his red
jacket,
...
secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories. I longed to join
them.
Atticus apparently paid
Jem to walk her to school on the first day, since Scout heard "an unfamiliar jingle" in
his pockets. Jem then laid down the law, telling her that they could not be seen
together during school hours.
I was to stick with the first grade and he would
stick with the fifth. In short, I was to leave him
alone.
Jem told her that
things were different at school, something that Scout would soon see for herself when
she met her new teacher, Miss Caroline.
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