Thanks bro. It's an autobiography. I've just started it and there is a bit about Graves' early school days around 1905:
"There was a secret about the headmaster which some of the elder boys shared - a somehow sinister secret. Nobody ever let me into it, but he came weeping into the class-room one day, beating his head with his fists, and groaning: 'Would to God I hadn't done it! Would to God I hadn't done it!' My father took me away suddenly, a week later. The headmaster, having been given twenty-four hours to leave the country, was succeed by the second master....."