An extra pair of stockings

Down the lower part of the alpine river, where one of the distant disciples and present vague successors of great Milton Erickson MD works miracles, the beautiful young woman lost her love and gave in completely.
As a result, marks went thumb down the very moment school proved a decisive final starting-point to commercial college.
After three sessions of hypnosis, the crucial first grasp of reality emerged at school with two decisive tests in German and mathematics.
In genuine Ericksonian style, the promise to avoid every excellent and too positive mark, the results for both tests - of course (!) - proved to be just about positively passing muster in the end; deploringly missing the next higher mark by simply three points for each exam.
So what shall we do about tomorrow's vital test in English?
From sideline-support of fixing attention from time to time to the feeling of the sole of the foot inside the shoe during the test situation, as a supportive detour to avoid the usual tension, the upshot of a simple idea hit the stage.
Just very simply, tackling the move of three points higher, one extra pair of stockings inside the shoes would make the upward difference.
Although others believe that they would succeed lighting a candle, they did not know that an extra pair of stockings, put on by chance, made the difference actually and they were able to make it.
Of course some curious glances from the peer group, who meticulously perceive the changed altitude, may lead to additional astonishment; moreover, to a hidden smile.

Also a rationale for Erickson's principle, because it proves rather impossible to wear so many pairs of extra stockings one on top of the other to secure an excellent mark; of course, except when pinching father's bigger shoes.