What information mainly does the following passage convey (paragraph 12)?

Miss Ryan took me to a seat at the front of the room, into which I shrank—the better to survey her. She was, too skinny, somewhat runty me, of a withering height when she patrolled the class. And when I least expected it, there she was, crouching by my desk, her blond radiant face level with mine, her voice patiently maneuvering me over the awful idiocies of the English language.