But fate was on my side: he and I had overlooked that the junior half of the school were off on some coaches to a theatre somewhere to watch a musical [G&S, I think] before lunch. I worried all the way there about the consequences of missing my Meeting with the AH and his cane: but the show put it out of my mind, and the responsibilities of running the school must have put it out of his mind, too, for nothing more was heard about it. But I did keep a very low profile indeed in his boring classes for a while.