did the teacher's words, "we were beginning without you"have deeper connotations? explain
Franz was late for the class. So, M. Hamel gave him a gentle reminder about that. We may say that it contains a deeper implication. M.Hamel did not want to scold Franz, as it was Hamel’s last French class. He was sad about that. Orders came from Berlin that instead of French, German would be taught in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. So, it meant imprisonment for the French people.