As Mrs.Lynde says, 'If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.' After all, I dare say I'll be back next year.

This is one of the times I KNOW I'm not going to pass.

They're getting alarmingly frequent." "Why, you came out splendidly in the exams Miss Stacy gave." "Yes, but those exams didn't make me nervous.

When I think of the real thing you can't imagine what a horrid cold fluttery feeling comes round my heart.

And then my number is thirteen and Josie Pye says it's so unlucky.