The Head might also have had earlier appointments he couldn’t interrupt, of course. Maybe, just maybe, he needed a quick sustainer from the hip flask before battle commenced!
I think the general line, even with our agreed lesser use of CP down here, was probably the same both sides of the border when it came to mob-handed misbehaviour-the Claude Rains/Captain Renault approach:
“Round up the usual suspects!”
A true gentleman, Sir! To save that poor girl from painful stinging hands. Or were you cheating the system? I was late fo school several times because the bus was late. The excuse was not accepted. “You should have left home in time to walk here” and the application of the belt followed. Very sore at any time, absolutely excruciating on really cold hands on a freezing winters day.