I would have to guess mostly what she was saying, as her accent was really broad.
Naturally, I took advantage of the opportunity to get out, although in a little village like that, there was nowhere to go anyway. I used to meet some of the other girls, and a few of the village boys. It was all very harmless. In the cold weather, if there happened to be ice, we’d go sliding around on it. In the warm weather, we’d just walk and talk, and the boy I liked and sort of paired off with, would walk me home, and give me a shy boyish good-night kiss.
I think my trouble started, when I was invited to a birthday party for Beryl Burst. A number of us went, and as the Eildons (Newburys??), went to bed fairly early they gave me the key to let myself in. It was a wonderful party, and none of us got home until about 1 A.M. Mr. Eildon informed Mr. B. that they had worried over me for hours. I really don’t know what time they expected me to arrive home from the party. Anyhow I was given a reprimand, and was told I had to get permission every time I went out, and to be back by 9 o’clock! What humiliation, after all I had had permission to go to the party.
In my spare time, I wrote some letters, one to a girl friend, and one to the Daily Mirror, which I really hadn’t any intention of mailing. Anyhow in the girl’s letter, I had mentioned a boy named Red, had kissed Joan, and had now got the measles, and in the other, had asked any lonely soldiers, sailors or airmen, if they wanted a pen pal, to write to me, as I was lonely too. Mrs. E. must have been looking through my belongings, because one morning her husband asked me to please bring down the two letters I had in my drawer upstairs. I like a frightened chick, went upstairs and got them and handed them over to him. Next day, I was called to the headmasters study. What a catastrophe, apparently it was immoral for the kids to have crushes and kiss boys, and there would probably be an epidemic of measles, (naturally the girl in question, denied kissing the boy), according to my letters the whole school was corrupt.