Dora writes that people keep pestering her for information about her life and Russell's life. She did meet with Sidney Siskin after A.S. Neill intervened. She has not read Siskin's thesis.

She feels too many people are after scandal, like Ronald Clark.

"We were educating for a democracy, of course. Why I now say that one cannot educate on Beacon Hill lines any more is because technology has taken over in our work life and is now moving to take over in education."