Mr Tandry, the Headmaster of Mildfields School, excitingly announces to the staff that , former pupil and now Secretary of State, and tipped-to-be the next Prime Minister, will be returning to the school for the Commemoration Speech in this, the school's centenary year. The thing is none of the other staff can remember him ever being at the school. James Curtis, the Deputy Head, Mark Higson, Head of Maths, and even the school secretary of the last 27 years Miss Newkins have no memory of a young Harold. As the displays of old photos and bound anthologies of the school magazine Mildfields Memories are displayed, the teachers all look for something to jog their memories but are unsuccessful. When Harold Saxon arrives at the school for the speech, he makes a passing comment to Mr Curtis: "I re