Possible Clues:

• Miss Beadle of 'Little House on the Prairie,' e.g
• Something fishy originally marking a jolly prim teacher
• Prim woman calms room after disorder around hotel
• Does she half-train learner, smothered in flattery?
• Old-time educator
• Flattery to get round unemotional, inwardly hard teacher
• Roedean, say, needs empty room to accommodate graduate teacher
• Priggish old-time teacher
• Frequent oater character
• Prudish woman calm about husband being smothered in flattery