The Chalet School Reunion #978927

It began on a certain chilly day at the beginning of February. To be strictly accurate, it began just before Christmas when Joey Maynard received a letter from her old friend Grizel Cochrane, then living in New Zealand. That letter made its recipient think furiously. This is the story of what followed.
It had been bitterly cold that winter, even for Switzerland, where it can be cold. Snow and frost did their fell worst—especially the snow. A freak blizzard topped it up and Joey, spending a few days at Montreux with a friend at the time, had been kept there—the Görnetz Platz, where her home and the Chalet School were situated, was completely cut off—until the road was opened once more and she was able to return home with the three babies she had had with her. Her four elder girls—the sixteen-year-old triplets and Felicity, who was seven—were pupils at the school and she had heard over the telephone that Len and Con, the eldest pair, had had a hair-raising adventure, though they were none the worse for it. As soon as possible, she had shot home to reassure herself. Finding all was well, she invited another old friend, Rosalie Dene, who was secretary at the school and an Old Girl like herself, to come to Freudesheim, the Maynard home, for “English” tea on the Saturday.