"Beacon Hill was very friendly, with staff and pupils all considered equal." She recollects two plays that the children produced, although she cannot remember details. "I remember a verse which Bertrand Russell frequently recited, and which was sometimes used when picking 'sides' for games:

'Onery, twoery, tuckaby seven: allaby crackaby, ten or eleven. Pin pan musky dan, twiddleum, twaddleum, twenty-one.'"