Down An English Lane (2014)
“The communication was from the new headmaster, Roger Ellison, who had written – typed, to be more accurate – in somewhat pedantic tones that he wished to discuss prospective procedures and staffing arrangements for the forthcoming years.
The school, at that moment, still had only three classes; an Infant and two Junior ones, with a teaching head. Miss Foster had taken charge of the Infants, Shirley Barker of years one and two of the Juniors, and Anne of years three and four. The classes wer...e large, but the possibility of having another teacher, or teachers, had been brought up several times and then rejected by the powers that be.When Anne arrived at the appointed time, ten o’clock, she was surprised to see not only Roger Ellison, but the man who had acted as the usher at the interview, and another person; a woman of roughly her own age, soberly dressed in a tweed coat and hat and sensible brogues, whom she could not remember having seen before. Shirley Barker was there too, looking a little overawed, and she gave Anne what looked like a smile of relief as she entered the room.MoreLess
The school, at that moment, still had only three classes; an Infant and two Junior ones, with a teaching head. Miss Foster had taken charge of the Infants, Shirley Barker of years one and two of the Juniors, and Anne of years three and four. The classes wer...e large, but the possibility of having another teacher, or teachers, had been brought up several times and then rejected by the powers that be.When Anne arrived at the appointed time, ten o’clock, she was surprised to see not only Roger Ellison, but the man who had acted as the usher at the interview, and another person; a woman of roughly her own age, soberly dressed in a tweed coat and hat and sensible brogues, whom she could not remember having seen before. Shirley Barker was there too, looking a little overawed, and she gave Anne what looked like a smile of relief as she entered the room.MoreLess
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