We did it, but on exiting we were faced by the girl’s senior PE mistress…..who would a year later teach us hockey, but who equally unfortunately thorough Jackie knew me. She stopped us and gave us a dressing down, and then she said in conclusion, that she was seeing Jackie that afternoon and she ‘should’ report this. We just said yes miss, groveled, and scuttled away. However, small mercies, she hadn’t said ‘would’.
Now we knew this was a caning offence, because of the girls. On the other hand, were we to own up, explain, and admit it, we might just get away. Then again Jackie was so punctilious as to NOT show me any favoritism the reverse could well be true. So we waited. No message to see her at the usual time in the afternoon.