A kind nun working in Accident and Emergency treated my mysterious discharge.

As we were thanking her, she made a surprising revelation. She was a former school mistress, having completed teacher training in the 1960s alongside TPR’s father.

She felt compelled to pass on this information when certain that she recognised her former fellow student’s good looks in his son. She also wanted to correct the misassumption that octogenarians have no useful function in society.