Prologue : whatever happened to Mr Wratislaw? -- I. Emergence -- Beginnings -- The question of precedence -- The famous five -- National child parks? -- Servicing the senior service -- Lifelines for clergymen -- There's nothing like a dame -- II. Giving early satisfaction -- The stable network -- Healthiness was next to godliness -- III. Heyday -- Prep school pedigree -- Did bowling bring them together? -- Bull at the common entrance gate -- Athletes and aesthetes -- Assistants -- IV. Coming to terms with contemporaneity -- Much ado about Greek -- Enter the the insurance companies -- The men in the engine room -- War and schemes of symbiosis -- Change in a post-war world -- The ISIS citadel -- Prep or PEP schools? Will vouchers help?