I'm sure Miss
Mitchell can't know all that goes on or she'd make some different
arrangement. You feel in another element when you get into the hostel.
It's 'do as you like and don't bother me so long as you don't go too far
and aren't found out.' It might be all very well in the old days last
year, but it's wrecking the show now. I wouldn't have believed it if I
didn't see it with my own eyes."
The chief offenders were three Third form girls, Norma Bradley, Biddy
Adams, and Daisy Donovan, who, with those former firebrands Winnie
Osborne and Joyce Colman, had formed a kind of Cabal, whose object seemed
to be to find out how far rules might be evaded.
"They've more time than we have, and they simply 'rag' about and 'play
the giddy goat'!" complained Merle to her sister.
"They don't seem to have enough to do with their spare time," commented
Mavis. "It's all very well to say they must have absolute recreation, but
both they and the babies turn it into a sort of bear-garden. You were
rather a terror yourself when you were that age! I remember Mother used
to quote, 'Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands'.
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