housemaster

That afternoon Dick received a telegram which sent him off full speed to his housemaster for the necessary permission to go home.

There was only one thing he feared; he did not want Mrs. Rogers, wife of the housemaster, to "mother" him.

He is now a Housemaster, with every opportunity (and full permission) to work himself to death.

However, a Housemaster contra mundum, and a Housemaster in his own House, are very different beings.

If a boy appears dour and dogged, the Housemaster has to decide whether he is shy or merely insolent.