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Author:  JB [ Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:08 pm ]
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The Chalet School and the Lintons is the tenth book in the Chalet School series. It was first published in 1934, the same year as Carnation of the Upper Fourth. It was divided into two by Armada, with the second half of the term published as Rebel of the Chalet School.

A consultation with Sir James Talbot leads to Gillian and Joyce Linton coming to the Chalet School after Mrs Linton is diagnosed with TB and advised to leave England immediately and go to the Sonnalpe for treatment, where it is hoped she will eventually recover fully. Gillian, at 15, is a responsible, hard-working and capable girl but is inclined to worry a lot. Joyce, although 14, has been spoilt and is lazy and conceited.

Gillian is placed in Upper Fifth while Joyce is in Lower Fifth, of which Thekla von Stift is a member. They start to settle into school but Joyce contrives to get into trouble with the Prefects and staff, resulting her receiving a dire warning about her behaviour. Gillian asks Joey what she should do about Joyce and Joey offers to talk to her. As a result of their talk, Joyce decides to really try at her lessons and to try and become a nicer person. However, Thekla is jealous of Joyce's friendship with Joey and she plots to hurt them both and get Joyce into trouble.

Thanks to the New Chalet Club. This is an abridged version of their synopis.

This week’s discussion will focus on the theme of “friendship” but please do comment on any other aspects of the book too. Here are a few questions to start things off:

EBD tells us that the people with whom Joyce would most like to be friends were “too busy with their own concerns and too close friends already” to take notice of her and that she has to be “content with the homage of lesser people”. How do you feel about this description? Do you like that we see new characters? Are they sufficiently three-dimensional?

Some girls are attracted to Joyce because of her “beauty and pretty manners” and she comes across as the leader in the group. Are there other examples of this “leader and follower” type of friendship at the CS?

Given what we’re told of Joyce’s personality, do you find her friendship with Thekla likely? Do you agree with her refusal to tell the truth about Thekla to Miss Wilson? Do you think this is in character?

In this book we get a glimpse of staff room life, with the mistresses relaxing together. This is quite unusual within the school story genre but something which EBD featured in several books. Do you think this appeals to child readers? Why do you think she included these?
Author:  Alison H [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:48 am ]
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I quite like this one. The plotline involving two siblings who are close in age but have completely different personalities is a fairly standard one in books but it's really the only time that it's used in the CS, so it's fresh and different from that point of view.

I really like the staffroom scenes, and did even as a child: it's something that makes the CS stand out from pretty much any other school series. I think that both Gillian and Joyce are fairly believable characters, and I think that Joyce's refusal to break the schoolgirl code shows how confusing the difference between "sneaking" and "reporting" can get.

Thekla's behaviour is appalling, but I do feel a little bit sorry for her when Mlle tells her that if Mrs Linton had died because she thought Joyce'd been expelled then she (Thekla) would've been a murderess. It's way OTT, and IMHO wholly inappropriate.

Maybe slightly OT, but there's a scene early on in which Joyce doesn't kiss Robin goodnight - hardly surprisingly, as she's only just met her and in any case is tired after a long and stressful journey - and Jo takes against her as a result, and Madge tells Jo that she really needs to stop reacting in such an extreme way where Robin is concerned. We've already seen Jo make Stacie feel that it will be her fault if Robin contracts TB (as apparently that would be a direct result of Stacie accidentally bumping into Nell Wilson) and offend Grizel by saying that she hasn't got time to talk to her because she wants to see Robin, and she certainly seems to be getting quite obsessive about her. Then, in Jo Returns there's a weird soppy scene in which "Jo's magnificent eyes" fill with tenderness, or words to that effect, at the thought that Robin might get measles, but she doesn't seem very bothered that her young niece Peggy has already got measles and is in quite a bad way. It's not something that's really developed later on, maybe because EBD decided to focus Jo's affections on Jack instead, but at this stage it's a bit ... odd.

The scene with Miss Norman is interesting. There's normally a reluctance to suggest that any CS mistress has problems coping, or that CS girls are capable of bullying someone vulnerable, but sadly the scene in which Joyce & co play up and Miss Norman is unable to restore order is not unrealistic. I feel so sorry for Miss Norman: her confidence must've taken a huge knock.

Waffle over!
Author:  jmc [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:58 am ]
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I also liked this book but have only read the two Armada books so hopefully they were not too abridged.

Gillian and Joyce reminded me a bit of my sister and I although we didn't have the ill mother. So in many ways the dynamics between them rang true for me. Like the sisters we were complete opposites as well. One of us was constantly in trouble while the other achieved good grades etc. While never expelled or threatened with expulsion my sister had numerous detentions, wagged and was even suspended on a few occasions. Unlike Gillian though I didn't seek to get my sister out of trouble. I just did my best to ignore her.

I always liked the staff room scenes in the books and have always felt very sorry for Miss Norman. This has become even more so since being a teacher. Many teachers have bad days and I have seen a few staff members crying over horrible classes they have. For some though it becomes almost too much and I have known some to take sick days rather than face those classes. Rotten classes can completely wreck your self confidence and it makes taking the classes much more difficult. Whilst the CS was supportive of their staff it can be hard to ask for help and be seen as incompetent, especially if you a a fairly new and inexperience teacher who hasn't built up a support network yet.

I found Joey quite awful to Joyce when she refused to kiss Robin. She was head-girl by this time but showed herself here to still be very childish.
Author:  Mel [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:51 am ]
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I liked the scenes showing home life at the Lintons with Joyce avoiding prep for as long as possible and how caring Gillian was to her mother. I did not feel sorry for Joyce over the Thekla story, though I think we are supposed to. Joyce is described as very young looking with her golden bobbing curls and blue pyjamas and Thekla the big bully. But hang on - isn't Joyce the bully - she certainly bullies poor Miss Norman.
I always feel that EBD is a sucker for looks - I wonder if the pretty girls in her school got away with murder if they had big blue eyes? Jo is quuite maudlin over Robin at this stage and was never the same with her own frail child - Margot.
Author:  ChubbyMonkey [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:52 pm ]
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I always felt so sorry for Miss Norman (though the look on her face on the front cover of 'Rebel' is somewhat priceless IMHO!) but I do like that Thekla refuses to take part. It makes her seem like so much more of a real character, I've always thought, though I never liked her more for it.

Gillian and Joyce's relationship always rang rather true to me, but right up until I "left" home I was trying to get my brother out of scrapes and frequently taking some of the trouble myself, so perhaps I was empathising on some scale. Yes, Gillian is too over-protective, but she's almost been forced into the position of mother until now. It was lovely to see the CS helping her, though; and far more subtly than in the later books!

The friendship between Joyce and Thekla was always a little odd, but at the same time I can see it working. After all, Thekla finds it easy to bully Joyce, and Joyce discovers that her looks won't be enough to win her power at the CS and so she pals up with rebel Thekla to try and get some influence over her peers.
Author:  Loryat [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:41 pm ]
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I really hated Joyce Linton for the way she treated Miss Norman probably because she is such a believable character. We've all met people like her. I always felt, when Joey lectures her about it, she wasn't half tough enough!

I do think a flaw in the book is the way Joyce so quickly becomes the victim of Thekla when earlier she has been such a nasty character herself. But I have a fondness for the scene with Cornelia, Thekla and Joyce, and later Miss Wilson as well.

Another flaw is the idea that Joyce is going to get expelled if she causes any more trouble. I know EBD wanted to create tension for the reader but even as a child I never found it believable. The CS has always been incredibly tolerant, Joyce has only been at he school for about half a term and her mother is very ill at the Sonnalpe. IMO, EBD shouls have made Joyce a lot worse for that stoyline to be convincing.

I liked these books in general though. We get some things we haven't seen before, such as a teacher not being capable of quelling even the most obsteperous middle with a steely gaze, and a 'sister' storyline of which the only CS equivalent is the long, drawn out triplet theme which isn't half so well drawn. I've never read them as a whole book, and I think it's probably one of the worse book splits. Rebel is ridiculously short.
Author:  Sunglass [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:19 pm ]
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The friendship thing is interesting to think about. I do actually find the brief Thekla-Joyce relationship credible, mainly because Joyce clearly has a bit of a weakness for an air of distinction, and mistakes Thekla's social exclusivity and proud air for 'being someone' within the school. Joyce clearly has a finely-tuned sense of school friendship pecking orders, because she has a nose from the very beginning for who the Middles' leaders are (Corney and Evvy). Though she'd like to be friends with them, they don't take any notice of her, so she has to content herself with the 'homage of lesser people' such as Hilda Bhaer and Kitty 'slapped in the face by Eustacia' Burnett, who are apparently superficial enough to be charmed by her looks and 'pretty manners'.

I actually don't much care for the tone EBD strikes in these passages - and she does it every time she wants to show a 'problem' girl somehow gaining influence over CS girls, despite not yet being the right sort of CS girl herself. She only seems to introduce the rather harsh concept of 'lesser people' (which seems to equate to easily-led, rather silly CS girls) in order to show them becoming the satellites of the 'wrong kind of leader' for silly reasons - which tarnishes a bit EBD's otherwise fairly idealised view of the CS as full of basically upright, if mischievous, honourable girls with the right ideas. Presumably a 'real CS girl' wouldn't have fallen for Joyce..? Or are these 'lesser girls' bored with being left out of the pack that Corney and Evvy lead?

Interesting how pretty, venal new girl Joyce has to be content with 'homage' from less important people, and is ignored by the leaders of her form, while Gillian, slightly less pretty and equally new, and we're told without Joyce's charm, quickly makes friends with the 'leaders' of her form. Clearly this is because her beauty also suggests 'character' of the right kind!

I don't know, maybe my problem with it is that EBD is telling, not showing here. I'd like to see how Joyce's charm doesn't work on Corney and Evvy, but proves attractive to Greta MacDonald and co, and why precisely it is that Gillian attracts the leaders, rather than the followers of her form so quickly...
Author:  Loryat [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:23 pm ]
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While I don't like it, I think EBD's portrayal of Joyce trying to get into the 'cool group' (Corney and Evvy are like much nicer versions of the 'mean girls' in Mean Girls) and making do with less 'cool' people shows that at that stage, at least, EBD had a shrewd understanding of schoolgirl dynamics. It's one of the less idealised representations of friendship in the CS but it rings true for me.
Author:  Sunglass [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:45 pm ]
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Loryat wrote:
While I don't like it, I think EBD's portrayal of Joyce trying to get into the 'cool group' (Corney and Evvy are like much nicer versions of the 'mean girls' in Mean Girls) and making do with less 'cool' people shows that at that stage, at least, EBD had a shrewd understanding of schoolgirl dynamics. It's one of the less idealised representations of friendship in the CS but it rings true for me.


Oh, I agree entirely on the realism, it's just I think it's one of the places where EBD wants to have her cake and eat it. I mean, either the CS is populated almost exclusively by 'the right kind of CS girl', a Guide, honourable, religious, with the right, un-superficial notions etc etc, or it actually (more realistically) has a fair few silly, superficial types, who are prepared to flock to a new leader like Joyce and follow her into very un-CS behaviour like passing notes and the organised and fairly vicious campaign of bullying a teacher.

I suppose what I'm saying is that Joyce managing so easily to attract a posse of girls who are OK with 'dishonourable' bad behaviour suggests some CS girls fall short of the standard EBD usually sets as a minimum (mischief, but not dishonour or cruelty), independent of Joyce's arrival?
Author:  Nightwing [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:01 pm ]
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I never disliked Joyce - she's certainly a horrible person when we first meet her, but I can't help but blame her family situation for that. I know her mother's sick, but she just laughs when Joyce tries to get out of her homework and doesn't seem to really care that her youngest daughter can't be bothered. There's a lot of pressure on Gillian to mother both Joyce and her own mother, and Joyce probably resents that, too.

I'm not saying that Joyce isn't a pretty awful person - her behavior to Miss Norman is terrible, and my sympathy is fully with the mistress - but when Joyce is finally forced to confront the fact that her mother really is very sick, and that her own behavior might either kill or cure her, she really does make an effort to change. It seems to me that before she arrived at the Chalet School she was never forced to face the consequences of her own actions before.

Although EBD presents it as Joyce being drawn to Thekla, clearly the older girl was drawn to Joyce just as much. Presumably Joyce's apparent contempt for the popular girls and the authorities won her Thekla's favour, because it is hard to see why else Thekla would go out of her way to get Joyce under her control - before Joyce, she's never really seemed bothered by whether she makes friends or not, and Joyce's family doesn't seem to have the kind of rank that appeals to Thekla's snob factor.

Something I don't understand in this book is why Thekla decides she hates Joey Bettany so much? Is there some particular incident I'm forgetting? Only I don't think Jo harangues her any more than any of the other girls do, and while it's fairly clear why there's friction between Joyce and Joey Jo never seems to take a particular hate for Thekla, besides being contemptuous of her snobbery. Any info or ideas?
Author:  emma t [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:15 pm ]
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Nightwing wrote:
Something I don't understand in this book is why Thekla decides she hates Joey Bettany so much? Is there some particular incident I'm forgetting? Only I don't think Jo harangues her any more than any of the other girls do, and while it's fairly clear why there's friction between Joyce and Joey Jo never seems to take a particular hate for Thekla, besides being contemptuous of her snobbery. Any info or ideas?


Maybe she thinks she does not like Joey because, really she does! Also the fact that whilst Thekla comes to school with airs and graces, which Joey lacks, might have something to do with it, also that Joey is Head Girl and is very popular, which might be a standing, Thekla herself might like. But does she not come to school rather late in her school career so to speak? How old is she again?

I love the scenes with Mrs Linton and Gillian. She's such a supportive daughter, and can clearly see what is going on with her mother, and tries to be there for Joyce who is entirely selfish, though was the illness not kept in the dark from Joyce? However, when she realises that things are serious with her mother,and they have to go to Austria, it's awful the way she continues, knowing too well that anything that would get back to her mother would ineffect, cause her to worry, and therfore set her back to the brink of death. Joyce is very young for her age, and just does not think of the consequences of her actions.

The mid night feast is intruging, EBD frequently points out the amount of good food that they have at the school, which is why the girls have never thought of having one before, until Joyce arrives there. Again, she is not thinking about the consquences this would arrise, and did.

Back to the issue of Thekla not liking Joey; I also think that this is because she wants Joyce to like her and her alone, plus the others she has in her little following, and sees her growing to like Joey. The topic of bullying comes up here also, when Thekla confronts her over it, and twists her arm. At least EBD does not shy away from such a topic.
Author:  cestina [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:34 pm ]
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This is probably the only CS book that I really dislike. I read it just once when I was a child and then firmly ignored it despite rereading all the others regularly. When I was reading through the whole series in order last year I had to force myself to read it.

I am not quite sure what it is; somehow I find the whole book distasteful, apart from the character of Gillian. The bullying of Miss Norman, the character of Thekla, and Joyce herself all combine to make it very unpleasant reading as far as I am concerned. A nasty taste in my mouth is the best way I can describe it.........
Author:  ChubbyMonkey [ Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:15 pm ]
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Perhaps Thekla disliked Joey as well because Jo was such good friends with her cousin? I seem to recall at first that she tries to get Marie to stand with her, but she just gets snubbed.
Author:  Sunglass [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:14 am ]
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Thekla disliking Joey for, as she might see it, 'democratising' her well-born cousin Marie might make sense - she's clearly initially shocked that Marie is perfectly happy to be friends with girls whose social standing is way below her own. I notice, though, if this is the reason for her particular dislike of Joey, that we see Thekla directing overt snobbery at people like Sophie Hamel, never Joey (although Joey is several notches down from the von Stifts/von Eschenaus on the social ladder).

I know it's a matter of Trade (Sophie) vs Upper-Middle-Class Colonial Service (Joey), but I can't see EBD allowing her beloved Joey to be sneered at on class grounds in any case, even by one of her most obnoxious problem girls!

I think she sees the CS and the San as constituting their own social order, anyway, independent of the Bettanys class of origin - there's never a hint of subservience or a sense of distinctions of rank from anyone at the CS or Die Rosen when Elisaveta's father shows up, and Veta herself is always seen as the one who is lucky to attend the CS, not the CS being lucky to have her as a pupil.
Author:  ammonite [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:14 pm ]
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I haven't thought of it before but isn;t Gillian in some ways a forerunner to Len. She looks after Joyce and worries about her and also takes control at home. Joyce then shares similar chareteristics with Margot, in the carefree attitude to work but with the ability to work if they want.
Maybe through viewing this family, Joey gets influenced on how she brings up her daughters?
Author:  Loryat [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:32 pm ]
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Sunglass wrote:
I suppose what I'm saying is that Joyce managing so easily to attract a posse of girls who are OK with 'dishonourable' bad behaviour suggests some CS girls fall short of the standard EBD usually sets as a minimum (mischief, but not dishonour or cruelty), independent of Joyce's arrival?

This type of girl always seems to crop up when EBD wants them and never at any other time! :D Besides Joyce's easily led gang you get Floppy Bill, Joy Bird, the girl who tries to frame Barbara and the girl who hates Adrienne for beating her in class. I don't know if they're always supposed to be present or whether EBD invents them for her purposes and then forgets all about them once they've outlived their usefulness. Though unusually many in Joyce's gang are recurring characters. The only other time IIRC that we see that is when Jack's Crew bully Jane.

Maybe Thekla doesn't like Joey because she is so contemptuous of her? Or is it because she sees Joey as taking Joyce away?
Author:  Josette [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:09 pm ]
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It struck me when discussing Margot in other threads how much more nearly she was a "murderess", with Betty and the bookend, than Thekla with the potential indirect influence of her actions on Joyce's mother. I also agree with loryat that it seems unrealistic to say that Joyce would have been expelled for her actions - particularly, with the close connections with the San, if it was considered that her expulsion would have killed her mother!
Author:  Nightwing [ Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:53 pm ]
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Joyce is only threatened with expulsion; I wonder if the school would have actually gone through with it, if push had come to shove. She pulls up after Mlle tells her what will happen, after all - and as I said before, this is the first time she's ever really been confronted with the idea that actions have consequences.

Then again, if she hadn't pulled up, presumably Mlle would have had to carry out the threat - after all, if a girl isn't even detered by the thought of expulsion, would you really want her in the school?!

Thekla's expulsion is a little different. It seems to come down to that idea of repenting and forgiveness which is so important at the CS. If Thekla had been sorry for what she did - if, like Joyce, she had started to understand about the consequences of her actions and realise that she'd been the one at fault - then she still might have avoided being expelled.
Author:  mohini [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:29 am ]
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I liked this book and though did not like Joyce ,could sympathize with her for not kissing Robin. Joey's reaction is too, what should I say "Unnice."
Joyce and Thelka's friendship rings true Joyce is the type of girl who will get attracted towards the naughty or bad type of girl.
It was horrible the way Thelka is scolded and made to feel responsible for Mrs Linton's illness. Mrs Linton knew how Joyce was and would not or should not be shocked if she was expelled. And her naughtiness did not really need expulsion.
She was exploiting weakness of Miss Norman. It would have been better to direct her energies in other direction.
I felt sorry for Miss Norman.
Isn't this the same book where Jack takes Jo with him to meet the Lintons?
Author:  Alison H [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:58 am ]
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Yes, Jack and Jo turn up to meet the Lintons. I'm never sure what, if anything, we're supposed to make of that. It makes sense in that they needed someone who could drive (Jack) and someone from the school to make the girls feel welcome (Jo), but I'm not sure if we're meant to read anything more into it or not. The fact that Madge and Jem were happy for Jack and Jo to go out in the car alone suggests that they were fairly sure that nothing was going on. I suspect that Jem, at least, knew that Jack was interested ... maybe they'd already had a word and Jack'd agreed to say and do nothing until Jo was older? Either that or they were trying to push them together because Jem didn't fancy being stuck with Jo living at Die Rosen for ever :lol: .
Author:  Sunglass [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:16 am ]
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Alison H wrote:
Yes, Jack and Jo turn up to meet the Lintons. I'm never sure what, if anything, we're supposed to make of that.


What I always make of it is the Unchaperoned Sex Roadtrip. :D :oops: :shock:

But that is probably because I currently live in a country where it is actually illegal for an unrelated man and woman to be in any kind of enclosed space together, including a car...
Author:  JB [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:38 am ]
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Alison H wrote:
Either that or they were trying to push them together because Jem didn't fancy being stuck with Jo living at Die Rosen for ever :lol: .


"Take Jo off our hands old man and one day you'll be in charge of a San of your own." :

That kind of thing? lol:
Author:  Tor [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:20 am ]
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:D :D

I always imagine it being more like:

[Kaffee and Kuchen in the salon at Die Rosen]

Jem: Mrs Linton and her daughters will be here tomorrow, finally. They've made a long journey of it - she's worse than I'd hoped. I'd like a doctor to be there to meet them, and give Mrs Linto a once over before loading her into the ambulance. Jack...?

Jack [staring at Joey over his coffee cup]: sorry, what?

Jem: The Lintons are arriving tomorrow...

Madge: The poor dears, the girls must be exhausted, and probably a little overwhelmed. I really think Jem, that I'd like to meet them myself. Maybe if I...

Joey: Oh, I'll go down Madge and give them a royal welcome, old thing. You're so busy at the moment, and I dare say you're better suited to getting their rooms ready. You can take me with you Jem

Jack [almost spilling coffee in excitement]: I'll do it!

Jem [smirking]: what was that, old chap?

Jack [too busy thinking about the ear-flapped fur hat he would wear to make himself look that extra bit dashing to be embarrassed]: I'll take the car and meet the ambulance for you, what say you Jo?

Joey [grins]: It'll be much less risky than Jem's driving, every time I am in a car with him I fear we'll have an awful smash

Jem: That's enough of that, you young monkey! Ok Jack, you and Joey can take the car out tomorrow, be here to pick her up after mitagessen...

Jack: Oh I think we had better go earlier than that, what with the roads being as they are at the moment. We can always grab a bite at the...

Jem [meeting Madges eyes]: *After* Mitagessen

Joey [jumping up]: Righto ,that's settled. Come-on Rob, lets go an see what the babies are up to

[Exeunt Joey without a backwards glance, Jack's eye's follow her til door slams behind her]
Author:  Mona [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:13 pm ]
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:D :D :D
Author:  ChubbyMonkey [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:38 pm ]
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Tor wrote:
Joey [grins]: It'll be much less risky than Jem's driving, every time I am in a car with him I fear we'll have an awful smash


Given that it's still my head canon that they were in love, I can't help but wonder why :oops: Excuse my dirty mind!

:lol: Thankyou! I enjoyed reading that. Jack's advances on Joey should be a drabble. In script form. Not that I'm hinting or anything. *leaves bunny food with a discreet whistle*
Author:  Abi [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:03 pm ]
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:lol: :lol: :lol: I like your version, Tor!
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