The Chalet Girls in Camp
Key Facts (Possible Spoilers)
School Facts:
Headmistress is Mademoiselle LaPattre
The School is in Tirol
Series Characters whereabouts:
Jo Bettany is Head Girl
Frieda Mensch is Second Prefect
Robin Humphries is about 11 years old
Corney Flower is about 13 - which is impossible (an EBD-ism)
Rufus is 4 years old
Rix and Peggy Bettany are 3 years old and living with Jem and Madge
David Russell is 15 months old
Joey creates a sensation when she (although unconsciously) calls Miss Wilson an idiot.
During a fishing trip Jo, Juliet and Grizel catch a lot of fish, but also something more frightening. Fortunately it turns out to be the redundant belongings of an artist who in misguided zeal combined with lack of time had seen fit to dispose of them exactly where our heroines decided to fish for pike...
At the end of camp the Quintette find themselves short of clean clothes. Left alone for a couple of hours they decide to take a hand. It results in a decision to add Domestic Economy to the school timetable.
Information about Old Girls and others:
Juliet Carrick, newly engaged to Donal, is Head Mistress at the School's Annexe for delicate children, where Grizel Cochrane will also take a place as Music Mistress.
Mollie Maynard, Jack Maynard's sister, former mistress and known to the school as 'Maynie' (although nowadays named Mrs Alastair Macdonald) is leaving for New Zealand.
'Carty', or Miss Carthew, a former mistress, is now married and has a baby girl called Josephine after Jo.
contributed by Catarina Tjallberg, Sweden __ working from a paperback edition