When I want to be busy with books, I am often playing truant among my thoughts.
At Fred's last words she felt an instantaneous pang, something like what a mother feels at the imagined sobs or cries of her naughty truant child, which may lose itself and get harm.
Several schools in China have introduced uniforms with tracking chips to monitor students' whereabouts and stop them playing truant .
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy.
