What's the full name of the person the headmaster go to visit to learn more about Danny?
Laura Reynolds is a free-spirited, unwed single mother living with her young son Danny in an isolated beach house in Big Sur, California.  She makes a modest living as an artist and home-schools her son out of concern that he will be compelled to follow stifling conventional social norms in a regular school.  Danny has gotten into some trouble with the law through two minor incidents, which are in his mother's eyes innocent expressions of his natural curiosity and conscience rather than delinquency.  Now with a third incident a judge orders her to send the boy to an Episcopal boarding school where Dr. Edward Hewitt is headmaster, and his wife Claire teaches. Edward and Claire are happily married with two student sons, but their life has become routine and their youthful idealism has been tamed by the need to raise funds for the school and please wealthy benefactors.
At an initial interview, there is a momentary immediate attraction between Laura and Edward, but this quickly turns into tension brought on by their greatly differing world views and Laura's dislike of religion.  Finally she storms out.  She attempts to flee the area with Danny but the police quickly catch them and take the boy away to the school.  He initially has trouble fitting in because his mother's home schooling has placed him far in advance of boys his age in many subjects; the standard course of instruction at the school leaves him restless and bored.  At Claire's suggestion, Edward visits Danny's mother to learn more about his upbringing.
Laura Reynolds