Path of Duty

From 1932, housemaster and teacher Robin Gordon Walker and chaplain Geoffrey How, both OWs, sought to bring a more liberal and enlightened attitude to Wellington College. Older masters were hidebound and rigid in their methods and many of the 'old guard' took exception to the move for change led by Robin and Geoffrey, who had a more relaxed view on friendships between boys and encouraged them to have friend in other houses, a practice much frowned on. The 'old guard' made repeated appeals to the headmaster to intervene and take sides. In 1943 Geoffrey was dismissed and Robin resigned in protest. This novel, written in 1944, fictionalises the events that took place at that time.