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cousin Alison. She looks rather miserable.' ' I feel miserable,' said
Alison O'Sullivan, coming up, looking very woe-begone. ' I shall miss my
friend Sadie dreadfully this term.' , Sadie had been an American girl
with no ideas in her head at all beyond clothes and the cinema. She had
had a very bad influence on Alison, but, as she was not coming back that
term, it was to be hoped that the feather-headed Alison would pull
herself together a little, and try to do better. She was a pretty little
thing who easily burst into tears. Her cousins welcomed her warmly.
' Hallo, Alison I Don't fret about Sadie. You'll soon find other
friends.' They all got into the carriage. Doris arrived, panting. Hilary
Wentworth, who had been head of the first form, flung herself down in a
corner seat. She was very much wondering if she would be head of the
second form. She was a trustworthy and responsible girl who liked being
head. 'Hallo, everybody,' she said. 'Nice to see you all again. Well,
Carlotta-been riding in the Ring, I suppose! Lucky kid!' ' You know I
don't belong to a circus any more,' said Carlotta. ' I went to spend my
holidays with my father and my grandmother. My father seems to like me
quite a lot-but my grandmother found a lot of fault with my manners. She
says I must pay more attention to them this term even than to my lessons
I You must all help me!' ' Oh no!' said Pat, with a laugh. ' We don't
want you any different from what you are, my dear, hot-tempered,
entirely natural, perfectly honest little Carlotta! We get more fun out
of you than out of anyone. We don't want you changed one little bit I
Any more than we want Bobby changed. We shall expect some marvellous
tricks from you this term, Bobby.' ' Right,' said Bobby. ' But I tell
you here and now, I'm going to work too!' ' Miss Jenks will see to
that,' said Hilary. ' Remember we shall no longer be in the bottom form.
We've got to work for exams, and pass them!' ' We're off!' said Pat,
leaning out of the window. ' Good-bye, Mummy! We'll write on Sunday!'
The train steamed slowly out of the station. The girls drew in their
heads. All the carriages were full of chatterers, talking about the
wonderful hols, they had had, the places they had been to, and what sort
of term it would be. ' Any new girls? ' said Isabel. ' I haven't seen
one.' ' I think there's only one,' said Bobby. ' We saw a
miserable-looking creature standing a little way up the platform-I don't
know whether she'll be second form or first form. Not second, I hope-she
looked such a misery!' , 'Alison's doing her hair again already,' said
Pat. ' Alison! Put your comb away. Girls, I think we'll have to make it
a rule that Alison doesn't do her hair more than fifty times a day!'
Every one laughed. It was good to be back, good to be all together once
more. The winter term was going to be fun! 2 IN THE SECOND FORM IT was
very strange at first to be in the second form, instead of the first.
The twins felt very important, and looked down on the first-formers,
feeling that they were very young and unimportant. But the third-formers
also looked down on the second form, so things soon shook themselves
out, and every one settled down. 'It's funny to go to the second form
class-room instead of to Miss Roberta's room,' said Pat. ' I keep on
going to the first form room, as I always used to do.' ' So do I,' said
Janet. ' Miss Roberts is beginning to think we're doing it on purpose.
We'd better be careful.' ' There's a whole lot of new girls in the first