| Mrs Wells, a retired school housemistress, said she had to go to London to show her concern about the seriousness of the world situation. |
| Finally she returned to the school, first as a teacher in charge of physical education and subsequently also as a housemistress. |
| I was encouraged by my housemistress and in 1949 I became a Guide Assistant and then a Guider. |
| We communicated by letter, which we were obliged to write on a Sunday – the rumour being that the housemistress read and censored them all. |
| She recalled her housemistress expressing delight that the young Helen had won a music competition. |
| In 1940 and 1941 she was a housemistress at Cheltenham Ladies' College. |
