I wonder if Irene will have got hers safely this term?'įelicity giggled. Then there was the usual hunt for the key of the trunk, which always disappeared regularly each holiday. 'You seem to be able to talk about it for hours on end at home.'Īt last the packing was all done. 'Good gracious-can't you talk about Malory Towers?' said her mother. Whatever shall we talk about to her all the way down to Cornwall?' Mother, I have a feeling she will be awful. 'If Sally hadn't been in quarantine we wouldn't have had to call for Zerelda,' said Darrell. Where's the list? I'll just run down it and see if we have left anything out.' Have you put in your bed-jacket, Darrell? Oh yes, there it is. 'Oh, thank you, Felicity-you've marked the slippers beautifully. 'You'll have to write and tell her everything,' said Mrs. But this time Sally would be late because of the mumps quarantine. Usually they arrived together at Malory Towers, for either Darrell's father or Sally's drove them down together in their cars. Sally Hope was Darrell's best friend at school. Mother, isn't it a shame Sally's in quarantine for mumps? She'll be late coming back.' 'Fifteen! Then she won't be in my form,' said Darrell. 'She looked about twenty there! But she's only fifteen, I think.' It's a marvel they were able to take her at short notice like that.' Here for a year, and she's to go to Malory Towers. But her English grandmother has asked her over 'What's her name now, Mother? I keep forgetting it.' T wish we hadn't got to call for that new girl,' said Darreli, bent over her trunk. How she longed to go to Malory Towers too! According to Darreli it was the finest school in the kingdom! Matron absolutely goes off the deep end if she finds anything not marked.'įelicity darted off to get a pen. 'Felicity, be a darling and mark them for me. Oh dear-did we mark your new bedroom slippers?' 'But it means unpacking half the trunk, because they must go at the bottom. We're allowed to skate round the courtyard now. 'And do let me take back my roller-skates. Oh, Darreli, surely you don't want all those books! They make your trunk so heavy.' 'Miss Grayling said she thought she would have room for her then. 'You'll be coming back with me in September. Her little sister Felicity was watching, wishing that she too was going with Darreli. DARRELL was busy helping her mother to pack her clothes to take back to boarding-school.

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