I was collected from my final exam by one of the secretaries who told me the headmaster wanted to see me. I assumed that it was a matter relating to the PTA, of which my father was chairman and he probably had some papers for me to take. The headmaster though was in court (he was a justice of the peace), and it was a good hour before he returned.
He apologized for keeping me waiting and said he had a couple of quick calls to make and then would see me. I waited at least another half hour before I was summoned in and learned I was due another caning from him for a detention I had skipped about a month earlier.
