Question

why did miss honey became alert when Matilda said she wanted to talk to her?

Answer 1

Answer:

Supposedly, it was suicide, but Matilda guesses (correctly) that Miss Honey's theory is that her aunt murdered her father. Yikes. For a long time after that, Miss Honey's aunt abused her. She's so traumatized, she doesn't even want to talk about it in detail.

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Answer 2

because of her intelligence and her way of speech made miss Honey to gather interest in Matilda. Also, miss Honey thought that Matilda was just like her when she was young.