The Chalet School Triplets
Key Facts (possible Spoilers)
Miss Annersley is Headmistress
Both the main School and St Mildred's, the finishing branch, are at the Gornetz Platz, Switzerland.
Series Characters Whereabouts:
Joey Maynard - is living next door at Freudesheim
Len Maynard - in VIb and a prefect
Con Maynard - in VIb
Margot Maynard - in VIb
Madge Russell - in Australia, with daughters Sybil and Josette
Maeve Bettany - a prefect
Peggy Bettany - married with a 5 month old son
Bride Bettany - engaged to be married
Barbara Chester - at St Mildred's
Biddy O'Ryan (Madame Courvoisier) - gives birth to another son, unnamed.
Mary-Lou Trelawney - studying at Oxford
Emerence Hope - back home in Australia, hopes to visit the school in the Summer
Ted Grantly - in VIb
Jack Lambert - in Lower IVb
Margot gets a letter from Emerence, inviting her to go back to Australia with them for the Summer.
Len & Con's furious struggle against the blizzard - and Con's last gasp effort to get help for her sister - causes Con to sleepwalk again.
Jack Lambert decides to leave their form's walk and join Len & Maeve. She and her friends try to cut through the pines and reach the path further down, but end up getting lost and going round in circles instead.
Margot, in pain with her toothache, lets fly at Len and Betty Landon butts in. Margot is too blind with rage to see what she's doing and picks up one of her bookends and throws it at Betty, hitting her on the head and knocking her unconscious.
During an afternoon shopping in a big department store in Lausanne, Len is made a victim of a professional shoplifter and is accused of being an accomplice.
Con gets the part of the Fairy Queen in the St Mildred's Beauty & The Beast pantomime, when two girls have to go home quickly. Clem Barrass comes back to play Nettlesting.
Mary-Lou's mother is chronically ill and has to go to the San as soon as possible. Mary-Lou writes to Joey, asking for help in getting her mother prepared for the journey and closing Carn Beg.
When Cecil goes missing, Jack has gone straight to San and they cannot get in contact with him as the phones are down. The three triplets therefore, set off in search of Cecil with Bruno, and have to outwit a woman who believes Cecil is her long-lost daughter.
contributed by Julie Robertson, Scotland __ working from a paperback edition