Following dinner in the school's dining hall, where Pennyfeather meets Peter Beste-Chetwynde, a bright, if trouble-making, boy, and then accompanies Captain Grimes to 'Mrs. Roberts,' the village pub. There, after revealing he is engaged to Dr. Fagan's older daughter Flossie, Grimes relates to Paul several episodes from his life. The first, and the scene which is to be the springboard for the following, is an account of his expulsion from public school after some undefined disgrace. British public school is equivalent to American private school. Here again, the British class system asserts itself when his housemaster writes Grimes a glowing letter of recommendation to present to any prospective employer in the future. Grimes explains that this sort of cronyism is built into the public school system. Those few who, through whatever.....
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