About Peggy Saville
CD-ROM Edition. No. 1 in the Peggy Saville series. Excerpt: "A new fellow! This term! From what school, sir?" "A ladies' boarding-school at Brighton!" Mrs Asplin spoke rapidly, so as to be beforehand with her husband, and her eyes danced with mischievous enjoyment, as she saw the dismay depicted on the three watching faces. A ladies' school! Maxwell, Oswald, and Robert, had a vision of a pampered pet in curls, and round jacket, and their backs stiffened in horrified indignation at the idea that
...grown men of seventeen and eighteen should be expected to associate with a "kid" from a ladies' school! The vicar could not restrain a smile, but he hastened to correct the mistake. "It's not a `fellow' at all, this time. It's a girl! We have had a letter from Arthur Saville's mother, asking us to look after her daughter while she is in India. She will come to us very soon, and stay, I suppose, for three or four years, sharing your lessons, my dears, and studying with you--"
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