No, Miss Carpenter had replied bravely, she did not have Mr. Hinsdale's permission, and she might very well lose her job when he heard about it. "But I'm not going to be the one who gives those boys the first shove toward reform school and maybe eventually the electric chair!" And besides, what did Mr. Queen have to lose but an hour of his time? —"Object Lesson," Ellery Queen What prediction can you make based on the foreshadowing in this passage? Miss Carpenter will get into trouble for asking Ellery to come to her class. The boys will rob Ellery when he arrives at the school. The principal will be impressed that Miss Carpenter knows Ellery Queen. The meeting with the class will be more significant than Ellery thinks.