The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes, and the impression that at any moment, the boys were likely to be away.

Sandy said: "There was a Miss Jean Brodie in her prime."

A small book in wuch the author explains how she came to write the famous "The prime of Miss Brodie". Apparently the model was a teacher of the author. She also recollects, with some highschool friends, the life in Edingbourgh as a teen girl.