The following day at school, Peter is summoned to the headmistresses office. She tells him his mother has called her and told her everything about his absence the previous day. As a result of his truancy, he shall be on report for the following week, and shall have detention every night this week. Peter hopes that his mother hasn’t really told her ‘everything’, but when the headmistress tells him how disappointed she is that he lied to his mother and bunked off school only to wear his sister’s clothes for the day, he realises she does in fact know everything.