

Plackett, Disgraceful Mary Jane initiates the garden gravedigging, and Pocked Louise helpfully adopts a puppy.

All seems lost until Smooth Kitty asks the others, what if they just don’t tell the authorities about their headmistress’s untimely demise? What follows is classic farce, as the young ladies spend the rest of that evening desperately hiding the corpses and their headmistress’s absence from an unprecedented stream of callers. Plackett’s death, surely they will all be sent back home to their dreadful families and shunted off to far worse schools. Once they tell the authorities about Mrs. All of the seven students at Saint Ethelreda’s, from Dull Martha to Dour Elinor, are horrified at the notion of their inevitable separation. Aldous Godding choke on their veal and fall over, dead as a pair of unpleasant doornails.

It’s an ordinary Sunday dinner at Saint Ethelreda’s School for Young Ladies until Mrs. When an overbearing headmistress and her odious brother drop dead, seven Victorian schoolgirls decide to run their school without adult interference.
