 During this morning's session, she reprimands David Burnham (Biff Elliot) for swearing and tells him that he must remain after class and write "Nothing is achieved by swearing" 20 times in his notebook.During David's detention, Miss Dove suddenly feels a sharp pain at the base of her spine and tells David to run and tell his father that she is ill.

Miss Dove puts her head down on her desk and begins to think about the day when her father died and changed her life forever.She had met a promising new beau when her father suddenly died.