The teachers also were prepared for business.

Miss Teddington, who had done climbs in Switzerland, came in orthodox costume with nailed boots and a jaunty Tyrolean hat with a piece of edelweiss stuck in the front.

Miss Lodge wore a full-length leather coat and felt hat in which she looked ready to defy a waterspout or a tornado.

Miss Moseley, who owned to an ever-present terror of bulls, grasped an iron-spiked walking-stick, and Miss Davis had a First Aid wallet slung across her back.

In the girls' opinion Miss Bowes shirked abominably.