Her cheeks were pink with excitement and there was a little thrill of nervousness in her voice, as if she were forcing herself to a supreme effort, but this passed as she warmed to her subject.
"Girls," she began, "I asked you to come here because I want to have a talk with you about our school life.

You'll all agree with me that we love the Villa Camellia.

It's a unique school.

I don't suppose there's another exactly like it in the whole world.

Why it's so peculiar is that we're a set of Anglo-Saxon girls in the midst of a foreign-speaking country.