From Anne Bernays - The Incident at the Brearley School - NYTimes.com Re "After Girl's Injury, Elite School Sees No Malevolence but Vows Cultural Shifts" (news article, Feb. 15): As a Brearley "girl" (class of 1948), I shudder twice at the Halloween incident you reported. Shudder 1 for the misguided notion that you can keep teachers and parents from talking about something bad that happened. Everyone knows that secrets like this one cannot be kept indefinitely. Shudder 2 for what I can only see as a disaster waiting to happen. Grabbing someone's ankle in the dark while screaming is a recipe for a kick in the head. It's a miracle this didn't happen before. The writer is the novelist.