The Chalet School Reunion
Key Facts (Possible Spoilers)
School Facts:
Miss Annersley is Headmistress
The School is on the Gornetz Platz in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
Series Characters Whereabouts:
Joey Maynard: is living at Freudesheim.
Len, Con, and Margot Maynard: are sixteen.
Grizel Cochrane: is living in New Zealand but currently visiting Joey
Cornelia van Alden (was Cornelia Flower): is living in Berne but currently visiting Joey.
Mollie Mackenzie (was Miss Maynard): is living in New Zealand but currently visiting Joey.
Stacie Benson: is living in Oxford (U.K.) but will be moving into Freudesheim.
Grizel is unhappy, but on the boat over she meets a very nice young man named Neil Sheppard. He cheers her up a bit and she cheers up still more at Freudesheim. The first adventure of the reunion party is at the Auberge where Bruno gets infuriated by the echoes and nearly goes over the edge. It takes the whole group to save him. Con's group narrowly avoid a brush with death when the path they had been standing on only a minute before avalanches down the valley.
Early one morning Grizel meets Mary-Lou Trelawney, whose mother had just died, but is still prepared to meet the world with a bright face, and this leads her to realise that her problems are not as big and therefore can be overcome more easily.
The next morning Sophie Hamel upsets the whole table when she accidentally pulls the tablecloth off and Margot's party has an adventure when they are trapped in the lift at the Trummelbach Falls.
The next day turns out to be foggy, but Joey amuses everyone by going through the history of the school by Kodak, playing paper games and charades. Len's party go to Wetterdorf where Cornelia has a dip in a stream and Len falls halfway down the mountainside. She is rescued by Grizel, who cracks her spine and ricks her ankle in the process. The ambulance arrives and Grizel is taken to the San where she is to remain for some months. During one of her many visits, Joey creates a sensation by arriving in a horse and cart, in order that Grizel can see Bruno.
After several months in the San, Grizel gets slowly better and is finally allowed to move into Freudesheim with Joey. It is there that Neil Sheppard proposes to her and she consents. The book finishes on this very happy note.
contributed by Miranda Cummings, Australia __ working from a paperback edition