His wife is a primary school headmistress.
One girls' school headmistress, laughing, pulled out the brochure for a conference, "Coeducation: The best we can do for our children?"
However, John is a broken man, legally unable to marry his lover-and, as she is a school headmistress, socially unable to continue associating with her.
He will black mail the boarding school headmistress for the sake of money.
That night she sat with Ms. Oliphant and enjoyed the company of the former school headmistress: "I wish I'd had a teacher like you.
I was struck by one of the comments of the primary school headmistress.
"Always highly regrettable," she said primly, rather like a public school headmistress talking to the parents of a pregnant sixth-former.
It was constructed on the area known as Beyond The Wood along with an adjacent house for the school headmistress.
His father was a military officer, while his mother was a primary school headmistress.
Even though she was confined to a maximum-security lockup, the former girls' school headmistress worked with inmates' children in a prison nursery.