New Head Girl
From Blushes 80 Stephen Wimbley, Headmaster of Fairgrove School, gazed out of his French window onto his sunlit lawn. it was a private area of the school, secluded by trees and shrubs and off limits to the general run of pupils, although one or two specially favoured ones were allowed limited access. On this sunny May morning it was deserted but Mr Wimbley nonetheless had someone in his vision. A pretty girl pupil, quite tall with a softly rounded figure and curling chestnut hair tumbling onto the shoulders of her navy cardigan. Her name was Susan Gilford. She was in the Lower Sixth and when school re-assembled in September she would be in the Upper Sixth. There was also a very good chance that she would then be Head Girl. Although that of course was not yet definite… Susan wasn’t actually out there, the Head was picturing her in his mind. Picturing Susan out on his lawn, also remembering her in here in his sitting room two days a...