We left unmarked! She however was summonsed and presented with the evidence. That oh so obvious choice.. expulsion or the cane: of course the cane! The senior mistress was recruited to witness that nothing untoward happened, if untoward is the best way of describing a teenage girl having to bend over the desk and lie obediently as her skirt was raised, her knickers were pulled down and twelve strokes of a swishy cane delivered ritualistically across her little white bottom. She relayed the awfulness of it to my friend while “chucking” him for his betrayal.
But that it was a pattern was evident from another incident that happened soon after.