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.
Major Digby-Hunter
Barbara
Mr. Bagley
Sgt. Wall
Mrs. Digby-Hunter
Miss Rone
Sir Edwin Archdale
Lady Archdale
Dr. Smollett
Wraggett
Marshalsea
Dr. Charles
Dympna