The only exceptions to the rule were the colour parties, which had just taken their places in front of the other Guides, and now stood like images, holding the flags. In front of the Guides stood the Brownies, very thrilled at this enrolment of a princess – the entire school knew who Elisaveta wa...
She had! For more than a week she was still and aching from her bruises and her sprained ankle, while any movement was a sheer agony for the first two or three days. Like most excitable children, she developed a ‘temperature’ very easily, and during those first nights she was quite light-headed, ...
See you at Kaffee. “ Joey, leaning on the garden gate of Die Rosen, her sister’s pretty chalet home, waved as her brother-in-law escorted Patricia down the road towards the sanatorium. Jo watched them for a moment. Then, whistling a cheerful tune, she turned and went swiftly up the long path back...
Nothing much can happen in three weeks!’ Thus Madge Bettany, as she sat in her bedroom, talking things over with Mademoiselle La Pâttre. ‘Our first term,’ she went on dreamily. ‘Well, it hasn’t been a bit what I thought it would. For one thing, I never expected we should get such a large school t...
Grizel, the Robin, and Miss Carthew escorted them to the lake-landing where the Chalet School boat was moored, and saw them off, Miss Carthew, who was holding the baby firmly, calling after them that they were to stay as long as they wanted, since everything would go well in their absence, while ...