What makes matters worse is that Varley was a teacher

Makes me sick. Basically, you can have absolutely no trust in men who work "anything with children". These men all have a certain physiognomy, by now I can recognize it and it's hard to have to live with knowing how many prominent people, especially politicians, also come along with this certain physiognomy. The doctrine of physiognomy perfected by the Nazis was banned after the last world war, because it is absolutely possible to identify a criminal by the shape of his skull and the geography of his face.