Which line from Matilda by Roald Dahl contains dialogue? Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class, where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her. After the usual business of going through all the names of the children, Miss Honey handed out a brand-new exercise-book to each pupil. "Stop!" Miss Honey said. She had been listening slightly spellbound to this smooth recital, and now she said, "How far can you go?" Miss Honey paused and leaned back in her chair behind the plain table that stood in the middle of the floor in front of the class.