Upper Fourth at Malory Towers

First nights supper

Cold ham and tomatoes, great bowls of salad, potatoes roasted in their jackets, cold apple pie
and cream, and biscuits and butter for those who wanted it. Big jugs of icy-cold lemonade stood along the table.

Miss Grayling's speech to first year students 

One day you will leave school, and go out into the world as young women. You should take with you a good understanding of many things, and a willingness to accept responsibility and show yourselves as women to be loved and trusted. 

I do not count as our successes those who have won scholarships and passed exams, though these are good things to do. I count as our successes those who learn to be good-hearted and kind, sensible and trustable, good sound women the world can lean on.

The Honourable Clarissa Carter

Clarissa started the term described as small and undersized. She temporarily wore glasses with thick lenses (which hid her clear deep green eyes) and had a wire round her teeth to keep them back. She had beautiful, thick, wavy hair which was a lovely auburn colour. Her unusual colouring made her look distinguished.

Clarissa was not allowed to swim or to play tennis because she had a weak heart. It was this reason why she was home schooled up until now as her heart condition slowly improved.

Eventually, her shared love of horse riding and friendship with Bill (Wilhelmina) blossomed.

Picnic at Langley Hill

Sandwiches of all kinds, buns, biscuits and slices of fruit cake.

Tea with Clarissa's old nurse, Mrs Lucy who lives at Langley Cottage

Tongue sandwiches with lettuce, hard-boiled eggs to eat with bread-and-butter, great chunks of new-made cream cheese, potted meat, ripe tomatoes grown in Mrs Lucy's brother's greenhouse, gingerbread cake fresh from the oven, shortbread, a great fruit cake with almonds crowding the top, biscuits of all kinds and six jam sandwiches!

Gwendoline Lacy's prescription from the specialist

There was nothing wrong with Gwendoline's heart, of course, in fact nothing wrong anywhere at all, except that she was too fat, and needed very much more

exercise. 

Games, and more games, gym, walks, no rich food, no sweets, plenty of hard work, and no thinking about herself at all!

She's just a little humbug! Swimming especially would be good for her. It would take

some fat off her tummy!

Information in this post were derived from Upper Fourth at Malory Towers written by Enid Blyton