Highland Twins at the Chalet School
Key Facts (Possible Spoilers):
School Facts:
Miss Annersley is Headmistress
The School is just outside Howells Village, near Armiford
Series Characters Whereabouts:
Jo is living in Plas Gwyn
Robin Humphries is in the Sixth and a Prefect
Biddy O'Ryan [O'Hara in hardback] is in the Sixth
Daisy Venables, Gwensi Howells and Beth Chester are Seniors
Bride Bettany is in Upper Second
Simone was living in the North of England but Andrè has been moved to a defence area so Simone and little Thérèse are going to Jo.
Gisela and Gottfried have rejoined the San in the Welsh Mountains with Maria who has suffered terribly with the Nazis. Gisela has just had a son Toni and has 4 other girls. Her previous son Florian (after her father who died in a concentration camp) was delicate and died after 3 weeks.
Mdlle Lepattre died 3 years ago.
Col Black, the officer in charge of the troops in the area, comes to the school. He had caught the spy and wanted to know who had betrayed the information. No one confesses and the spy points out Betty. She had spoken to him in the garden and he had blackmailed her into letting him into the school. Betty will be expelled. She is nearly 18 and will be called up soon. Her guardian has never really cared for her. Her mother's friend Mrs Graves (her other guardian) has been the only one to take any interest in her. She now decides to take over her care and with this they believe Betty may make good. Elizabeth Arnott blames herself for ignoring her old friend.
Jem just got his baronetcy in the birthday honours list.
Jack arrives back at the end of the book. He had been picked up by a tiny boat near Mauritius.
In the hard-back edition there is also the following thread:
Elizaveta and family turn up after a hair-raising escape from Belsornia. The King has stayed behind, as has Elizaveta's husband, and she has not heard from them for months. Elizaveta registers as 'Mrs Helston' and finds a home near Joey's.
contributed by Susan Dunnachie, Australia __ working from a hardback edition