An Interlude at Malory Towers

By Nick Huggins
Players: 15
Genre: Enid Blyton
“Felicity!
Look – there’s Malory Towers at last!” cried Darrell. “I always look out for it
at this bend. This is where we catch a glimpse of it first.”
= What
is Malory Towers? =
Malory Towers is a boarding school for young ladies in
Cornwall, England. It has stables and a swimming pool and a gymnasium. It has
nice teachers and nasty teachers, nice young ladies, and bad apples. It has
fun, picnics, horses, midnight feasts, honour and punishments.
= What
does Malory Towers look like? =
“I love Malory Towers – It has four towers, and our
dormys are in the top. I’m in North Tower, overlooking the sea. It’s absolutely
wizard! We have a swimming pool, hollowed out of the rocks, and a stables where
the horses are kept. Some of us even have our own horses, like Bill’s Thunder!
We have a simply enormous gymnasium, and sometimes at half-term we put on shows
for the other girls’ folks in the amphitheatre in the courtyard. My favourite
place of all is our common room! We girls get up to all sorts of mischief
there. I suppose if I had to choose I’d say my least favourite place is the
‘San where all the sick girls go, and Matron takes care of them. Luckily I
don’t need to go in there much!” – Sally Hope.
Discipline in Malory Towers.
She
heard the Headmistress’s voice. “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 those 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.”
“It’s not like when I was at home with my governess.
Matron makes us do darning all the time, and she even makes us unpick our work
if we do it wrong. She’s simply a beast! We have to do prep almost every night,
and if we don’t hand it in, we get order-marks that count against the whole
class. Why, I remember once when Alicia played a trick on Mam’zelle Dupont we
had to miss a half-day-holiday. Blow her!” – Gwendoline Mary Lacy
Cost: free
Available from: http://www.irishgaming.com/scenario_storage/nh/malorytowers.zip
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