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