 A former student at Wrykyn, Shotter was there at the same time as Willoughby Braddock, and also knew a boy called Claude Bates, who he thrashed soundly one day for stealing jam sandwiches, a deed that stands him in good stead with the Bates-hating Miss Derrick.He does, however, have a tendency to be rather too sudden.The Betty of "The Prince and Betty", Miss Silver is a pretty girl with big gray eyes, stepdaughter of Benjamin Scobell.