He has five liver spots in the shape of the constellation Cassiopeia on his forehead, and a steely glare which I would say is a 4B on the eye colour chart I have hanging in my bedroom. He isn’t a doctor, as you and I think of them, but he likes to be called one. He’s very good at that, and it’s best to wait until he’s done. It’s true, and I don’t know what to say.ĭoctor Hargrave (Ronald Hargrave, BPhil MEd OBE) likes to fill silences.
We’re sitting in his office, the air sticky, and that’s not just because of the heatwave outside.
“This is the twelfth –” the headmaster glances up from his notes – “no, let me correct that – the thirteenth time you’ve been in trouble this term, Agatha.”
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