Mother Winters was our head mistress, the administrator of our orphanage.

3: the Sea is a Harsh Mistress: Charlie nearly drowns while surfing and has a vision of his fathers floating head, which tells him to do the unthinkable — take care of his mother.

With that he dashed head foremost out of the room, amid the merriment of the master and mistress, and to the serious disturbance of Catherine;