The Job
Miss Harries was a mature spinster, an ex-headmistress, she had retired before she had wanted to, forced into it because the school governors had decided she was too harsh and draconian in her ways. Whether that was because of her upbringing or because she was born like that, the school governors thought that she was too assertive and aggressive for a modern school, where corporal punishment was no longer an option. She sneered at their weakness. She was the daughter of a shipping...