[The Jolliest School of All by Angela Brazil]@TWC D-Link bookThe Jolliest School of All CHAPTER XII 5/28
You'll remain there until you apologize." A dead hush fell over the class as Peachy, with flaming eyes and chin in the air, flounced out and slammed the door after her.
It was an extreme measure at the Villa Camellia to banish a girl to the sanatorium, a public disgrace generally administered only by one of the principals, and scarcely ever resorted to by a form mistress. Miss Bickford, with a red spot on each cheek, glared at the row of faces in front of her. "Can any one give any information about this business ?" she asked, then as nobody replied she continued, "I'm disgusted with the whole set of you.
I wish to say that I'm not as blind as you seem to think, and I've noticed many points about your work that are, to say the least, extremely suspicious.
I tell you once and for all _this must stop_! I won't have cheating, practical jokes, or impertinence in this form.
Do you all thoroughly understand me? Very well then, don't let this kind of thing ever happen again.
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