"A rotten little sneak!" "A smug prig!" that's how the girls at the Chalet Scholl described Eustacia after she'd been there just a day! but they plan to take her down at least 50 pegs so she'll be fit to live with. But Eustacia continues to be rude to the mistresses, impertinent to the the prefects, and superior to the girls. She is unbearable...until her grim accident in the mountains, Then the long months of recovery give her time to realize how horrid she's been, and to want the new "Stacle" to be a very different girl.