Dedicated to Muriel and Beryl Harrison and Rosemary Jessup with much love.

It was the beginning of a new term at the Chalet School, and all over the Chalet and its sister house, Le Petit Chalet, sounded a buzz of merry voices, a tapping of heels, and peals of laughter.

With which appalling sentiment, Jo declared the discussion closed, and went off to seek Joyce and Cornelia, to tell them what the baby's name finally was to be.