All the remaining tutorials are uneventful

You motion April to sit as well and begin the lesson, discussing the girls' essays in detail. You point out where Debbie's prose could be tightened up and give April advice on how to further improve her style and content, whilst encouraging your students to give their own input. After quizzing them on the deeper implications of their assignments, you are satisfied that they have a firm grasp of the material and bid them farewell, hopeful that next week there will be no need for either of them to receive the cane.

The rest of the afternoon passes off without incident as you tutor each pair of freshers in turn. A couple of them require six of the best for getting an A-minus, but they take their chastisement well and you're confident that they'll do better in a week's time.

As the last students thank you for your help and file out, you wonder what to do with your evening. Normally, you would go home and pop a ready meal in the oven while you start marking the essays your intermediates have emailed you, but this is your first day in a world you have shaped to your own desires. Maybe you should explore it a little.