INTVER describes the interior of the house as follows: "There is a modern infra-red panel electric fire set into the wall, a three piece suite with a settee of enormous length for the size of their rooms. There was quite a wealth of carpeting on the floor". INTVEE’s eldest child is due to take a five year course at Ainslie Park having not been offered a place at the Royal High. She thinks there are two distinct elements to Ainslie Park - children in blazers like you might see going to any decent school and children in unsuitable clothing such as jeans, leather jackets, high heeled shoes, bee-hive hairdos, even make up and smoking. She is afraid of the influence of bad lot on her children. She was advised against applying to Trinity as the fees are smaller than other schools and the competition is high, more so than for the Royal High or Heriots. Her husband is attending night classes in engineering, he works at Ferrantis and is critical of the standard of education at night classes. On trying to get a place at Gillespie’s they were told there were no places when they gave the name of their headmaster and INTVEE is quoted as saying, "It's where you come from that matters in this place, nothing could have been plainer than that they thought the headmaster of any school in this district wasn't a person to be taken seriously at all". She is horrified at the prices of houses in Edinburgh and believes the firms Miller, Cruden and McTaggart and Mickel have got a monopoly. She thinks Wimpey houses are good value but they are only allowed to operate on the periphery of the city.