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St. Clare's 4 - The Second Form At St. Clare's - Blyton, Enid 1 OFF TO
SCHOOL AGAIN THE last week of the summer holidays flew by, and the
twins, Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan, seemed to be in a rush of buying
clothes, fitting them on, looking out lacrosse sticks, finding lacrosse
boots, and hunting for all kinds of things that seemed to have
completely disappeared. ' Where is my knitting-bag?' said Pat, turning a
whole drawer-full of things upside down. ' I know I brought it home at
the end of last term.' ' I can only find one of my lacrosse boots,'
wailed Isabel. ' Mummy, have you seen the other?' ' Yes, it came back
from the bootmaker's yesterday,' said Mrs. O'Sullivan. ' Where did you
put it?' ' Packing to go to school is always much more muddling than
packing to come back home,' said Pat. ' I say. Isabel-won't it be fun to
be in the second form this term?' ' Who is your form-teacher there? '
asked their mother, unpacking half Pat's things and packing them all
over again. ' Miss Jenks,' said Pat. ' I'll be sorry to leave Miss
Roberts and the first form, in some ways. We did have fun there.' ' I
bet we'll have some fun in Miss Jenks's class too,' said Isabel. ' I
don't think she's quite so strict as Miss Roberts.' ' Don't you believe
it!' said Isabel, trying to cram a tin of toffees into a corner. ' She
may not have Miss Roberts's sarcastic tongue-but she's all there! Don't
you remember how she used to deal with Tessie when Tessie used to try on
her pretend-sneezes?' ' Yes-sent her to Matron for a large dose of awful
medicine, supposed to stop a cold !' giggled Pat. ' All the same, I bet
we'll get away with quite a lot of things in Miss Jenks's form.' ' I
hope you mean to work,' said Mrs. O'Sullivan, putting in the top tray of
Isabel's trunk. ' I was quite pleased with last term's report. Don't let
me have a bad one as soon as you go up into another form, will you?' '
We'll work all right, Mummy,' said Pat. ' I can tell you, the teachers
at St. Clare's aren't easy-going where work is concerned. They keep our
noses to the grindstone I Mam'zelle's the worst. She really seems to
think we ought to learn to talk French better than we speak English!' '
No wonder your French accent is so much improved, then,' said Mrs.
O'Sullivan, with a laugh. ' Now Pat- let me see if I can possibly shut
your trunk. You'd better sit on it whilst I try to shut the clasps.' The
trunk wouldn't shut. Mrs. O'Sullivan opened it again and looked inside.
' You can't take all those books,' she said, firmly. ' Mummy, I must,'
said Pat. ' And I simply must take those games too-we love jigsaws in
the winter term.' ' Well, Pat, all I can say is, you'd better take
books, games, toffees, biscuits and knitting things, and leave behind
your clothes,' said the twins' mother. ' Now-be sensible-take out three
books and we can shut the trunk.' Pat took out three books, and, when
Mrs. O'Sullivan was not looking, put them hurriedly into Isabel's trunk.
Her own trunk now shut down fairly easily, and was locked. Then Mrs.
O'Sullivan went to Isabel's. 'The things you girls take back with you
nowadays! When I ..." ' When you were a girl you only took a small case,
and that held everything!' chanted the twins, who had heard these
remarks before. ' Mummy, we'll both sit on Isabel's trunk, shall we? '
Mrs. O'Sullivan opened the trunk and firmly removed three books from the
top layer. She looked at them in surprise. ' I seem to have seen these
before !' she said. The twins giggled. They sat on the trunk and it shut