The Chalet School And Richenda
Key Facts (Possible Spoilers) :
School Facts:
Headmistress: Miss Annersley and Miss Wilson are co-heads of the Chalet
School.
The School is at the Gornetz Platz, in the Bernese Oberland in
Switzerland
Series Characters Whereabouts:
Biddy O'Ryan - was married to Dr Eugen Courvoisier during the summer,
but returns to teach for this term, since the school has been unable to
find a replacement for her. She learns that she is expecting a baby the
following May.
Jo Maynard - is living at Freudesheim
Len Maynard - is in Form Vb and in Pansy dormitory with Ricki.
Con Maynard - is in Form Vb
Margot Maynard - is in Form Inter V
Mary-Lou Trelawney - is made Head Girl this term.
Emerence Hope - is in Form Vb
Richenda finds it impossible to be unhappy at the Chalet School. As well as making friends quickly in her own form, she soon feels the friendly influence of the School's new head girl, Mary-Lou Trelawney, and goes to her for help when she is unable to comfort the desperately homesick Odette Mercier. Later she and Len help to bring Odette out of her shell.
After examining Joey Maynard, Sir James Talbot diagnoses a 'displaced organ', for which she must have an operation followed by a short rest in a nursing home. Joey sails through the operation and recovers quickly to take a holiday on her own with her husband - a second honeymoon, as she calls it.
While visiting the dentist, a very nasty small boy squirts something corrosive into Ricki's eyes. Ricki is rushed to the Augenklinik in agony, and for some hours there is concern that her sight will be permanently affected. Ricki is relieved to discover that she has not been blinded, but she will need glasses until she is twenty or twenty-one.
Her father is sent for at once, and there is a reconciliation between the two at her bedside. Showing that he understands that his daughter has inherited his love of porcelain, he tells her she can have the Khang-he vase for her own at Christmas. It later turns out, of course, that it is Joey Maynard who has seen to this: no sooner had she returned from her second honeymoon than she went to discuss the matter with Professor Fry in person.
Christina Erskine, London __ working from a paperback edition