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Read the passage from The Story of an African Farm in which Em speaks to Waldo about Lyndall and Bonaparte.
"Lyndall made him angry," said the girl tearfully; "and he has given me the fourteenth of John to learn. He
says he will teach me to behave myself when Lyndall troubles him....
"You see," said Em, hopelessly turning the leaves, "whenever he talks she looks out at the door, as though
she did not hear him."
What is suggested about the characters based on this passage?