After about an hour the door burst open and Cathy and Sheila entered in floods of tears.
They said they had to report to the Headmistress before supper as they had been caught by Mr Thomas coming back into school after visiting the local shop.
He had given them both smacks on the thighs and said he was reporting them to the headmistress.
This would mean six with the slipper.
They were the only two girls who had never been slippered.
I said: “Look, you both have had the cane and that is far worse than the slipper.”
This meant now that out of the twenty girls in the upper 6th we would all have been slippered and only Julie had never felt the cane.