The obvious rejoinder is that shutting schools brings benefits. Covid-19 can be deadly. Parents do not want their children to catch it or to give it to grandma.
She realized now that though he had infuriated her with his malicious comments and roused her to heated rejoinders, he had done it because he cared what she did and said.
His rejoinder had made Alida laugh again, and it was then that she had flung back tantalizingly: " Oh, there is one, of course, but you'll never know it" .
But there was no impatience in his rejoinder—none, at least, save what was expressed in a little appealing sigh. " Ah, well, then, I must not give up the hope of bringing him round" !