On the one and only occassion that I was caned at school (Six for trying to look up the french teacher’s skirt) the headmaster wasn’t in and was left to wait outside his study while she went to look for him at the same time as allowing me to weigh up the situation.
So ok,a caning was most definately on the cards,about that there was no question whatsoever.How many? Well going by what I saw in the dorm’ at night on the occasion when it was every school boys solemn duty to inspect the freshly caned bottom of a fellow housemate it would also be without question whatsoever six and definitely,no less.