The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
Mrs. Digby-Hunter
Major Digby-Hunter
Wraggett
Mr. Bagley
Sgt. Wall
Dympna
Barbara
Marshalsea
Lady Archdale
Sir Edwin Archdale
Miss Rone
Dr. Smollett
Dr. Charles