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are the horrible results of radio-active transmutation (maybe she's right !)
M. GALLWEY (thinks): “Wonder what Jocelyn will disagree with today."
The quietness is broken by:—
A DRAMATIC UTTERANCE: “If I ever lose Dornell, I'11 die !”
Enter ROBYN—a typical mad author—speaks up now and again but mostly
again.
Enter DORNELL She’s a Wylie one ! a sheep in wolf's clothing.
DORNELL (very worried): “Has anyone seen Rob ?”
No need for Rob to die, after all.

Scene 3: The same — a little while later.
“Aah . . . tish . . . ooooh !” — Crash (there goes another window).
Enter CHRISTINE—she’s already broken three windows with her man-sized
sneezes.
M. GALLWEY has just recovered from the shock when he has further
cause for despair:—
Enter TONY — a fully imported body.
M. GALLWEY (thinks): “Why, that fellow finds it easier to pronounce the
French ‘r’ than I do.”
Just to prove we are not entirely ruthless :—-
Enter RUTH — She knows of Milton, Wordsworth, Pope,
And leaves us all without much hope.
Enter PAM (not far behind) — but she swims better than she runs —
receives no salary for instructing in Maths 1.

ACT THREE
Scene I: Still Room 1, W.H.I.S.
“Puff! puff! puff!”
Enter BELIEVERS IN EXERCISE (returning after a daily gallop round
the oval):—
HEATHER- an Amazon, most powerful of the fair, followed by PHYLLIS
—expert looker of daggers — endeavours to reform the 6th Form boys.
PHYLLIS: “You shouldn’t be doing that, you know.”
Next comes EUNICE—No! where is she ? Why, she's been sitting there
all the time—completely detached from flying objects and devastations about her.
Scene 2: Partly room 1 and partly the corridor.
M. GALLWEY (at doorway—shouts in a soft voice): “Travers, Bond,
Kimber—hurry up—Have you had duties to perform ?”
Enter, reluctantly, PETER B. —
ALL: “Full well we laugh with counterfeited glee
At all his ‘jokes” for many a ‘joke’ has he.”
Enter, also reluctantly, ALLEN — one of our school captains.
ALLEN (fuming): “This has gone past a joke !”
(ASIDE) — “When mad, my voice is the harshest thing about me.”
Enter, still reluctantly, GRAHAM — hot-headed flame of curls (Have clip
pers, will cut).
Scene 3: The same.
M. GALLWEY (from the doorway): “Hurry inside Lindley, Kennedy,
Klaikalietis . . . and, in future, don’t come in here when a Franch class is
in progress — even if you take French !”
Enter (sheepishly) several boys.
After a while—Exeunt several boys.
Scene 4: Room 1, W.H.I.S. — The scene is now set for the French lesson.
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