Malory Towers

Last call for Malory Towers.

I'm here!

Darrell. Rivers.

Sorry!

Sorry.

The 10.30 to Penzance will be leaving in one minute.

Darling, you're going to get such a lot from this new school.

Make sure you put a lot back.

Don't forget to write. Of course I won't.

Chop chop, young lady.

Just in time.

Have a seat. I'm Alicia, by the way.

Sally's a new girl too.

There's a third one somewhere.

Look, there.

Poor girl.

Bet you half my tuck she's faking it.

That's waterworks.

Which reminds me, introductions.

Jean - good egg.

Irene, and Mary-Lou.

Would you like the window seat?

This is Gwendoline Lacey. Gwendoline Mary Lacey.

And I'm afraid I'LL need the window seat.

I get awfully travel sick. Darrell, your hat!

Darrell! Felicity?

Darrell? Sorry.

Darrell! No!

Where are they going?

Who IS that girl? Watch out! What is she doing?

She'll fall.

She's got it! Great. Hurray!

Did Darrell tear her dress?

Good show, Darrell. You will have to mend that rip.

She's just the sort of girl Mother warned me about.

A tomboy.

All abroad!

Woo!

Off we go!

How come you're all changing schools anyway? Gwendoline?

Mother says I need to be stretched.

Darrell?

I love swimming. There wasn't a pool at St Hilda's.

St Hilda's?

My cousin's there.

Apparently they asked a girl to leave last year.

Did you know her? Get ready - Cliff Corner's coming up.

Who's that? It's Pamela, head girl.

Marvellous.

Look, Malory Towers! Wait for me, Alicia!

# Four tall towers

# Teach us how to strive

# Be women the world can lean on

# Women who will thrive. #

It's huge! I shall never know my way about.

I'll soon teach you - come on.

It's just like a castle.

I shall feel like a proper lady staying here.

You wouldn't say that

if you knew what happened to the real Lady of Malory Towers.

What? No-one told you?

We've a ghost here, you know.

Come on, follow me.

Oh, are we lost? Where did Alicia go? She said to go to the san.

Let's try this way.

Oh! Excuse me.

Science labs.

We have to do science?!

Daddy took me to visit one of his old medical schools once.

I'd love to be a doctor when I grow up. You mean a nurse.

Girls can be doctors. Why shouldn't girls do everything boys can do?

Why would you want to work, anyway?

Mother says, a woman needs a room and money of her own

to be truly happy.

MY mother says girls only need jobs

if they're too plain to catch a husband.

What do you think you're doing?

Sorry - we were going to find Matron.

I'm Matron.

What on earth has happened there?

Er, it... It was an accident.

An order mark for you.

Follow me.

Thank you so much for taking us to our dormitories.

You're not going to your dorm.

I'm taking you straight to the headmistress, Miss Grayling.

It's not fair! I didn't do anything.

It was all her.

You're not here because you're in trouble.

I see all the new girls on their first night.

You do?

It's one of my favourite moments,

seeing you all the day you join us.

Imagining what you might achieve.

What would you like that to be?

Passing our school certificate?

Exams aren't our only measure of success.

A Malory Towers success is someone

good-hearted and kind,

loyal and trustworthy.

Good, sound women the world can lean on.

Women unafraid to forge a new future.

You will all gain tremendously from your time with us.

See that you give a lot back.

That's exactly what my father said.

Hm.

Well, perhaps one day he and Malory Towers will be equally proud of you.

52, 53, 54...

Everyone, it's almost time for lights out.

..56... New girl, what's your name? Gwen...

Gwendoline Mary Lacey.

Get into bed. But I promised Mother I'd brush my hair 100 times a night!

Katherine's head of form - you have to do what she says.

Oh, now I've forgotten what number I've got to!

56. Bed, now.

58.

59... Lights out.

A long time ago, when this was a private mansion,

a girl lived here.

Her name was Lady Jane Malory.

Alicia! Not the ghost story.

I've been wanting to ask about the ghost.

One day, out riding, she met and fell in love with a highwayman.

What was that?

Lady Jane's ghost. She wants to come in.

It's inside! Get it away from me.

It can't be her. Ghosts aren't real.

Careful, Darrell.

Ha! Got you, little one.

It's just a mouse. Squirming now.

What is going on? Darrell Rivers!

It's just a little mouse, Matron.

It's getting away!

You, Darrell Rivers, are a trouble-maker.

I know your type. But... No pudding for a week.

Now, everyone, back into bed!

Thank you, Gwendoline. You did the right thing in coming to me.

The mouse was yours?

He's probably happier roaming free anyway.

You were a brick, not telling Matron about the cage.

I'll make it up to you. Come on, let's go. Where? Shh!

You're going to have to tie that back, you know.