Ladette to Lady - Episode 3 - page 2

11-10-2006 09:29

With only a few hours sleep the girls are bleary eyed as they rouse themselves to cook breakfast for their guests. Hungover, Vicky decides she can’t face the world and snuggles back into her bed only to get a rude awakening when she finds Rosemary Schrager stood over her bed demanding to know why she has disgraced herself.

When Mrs Shrager asks the guests about the cooking she’s mystified to hear praise for an apple and cinnamon cake – a recipe she never taught them.

Meanwhile at Eggleston Hall, scouser Louise Porter, Chelsea Fan Laura Hearsum and barmaid Rebecca Squire have been set an unforgiving timetable of deportment, elocution and flower-arranging lessons. It’s an opportunity to get ahead and after a week of hard grind the girls are rewarded with a night off.

With a glint in their eyes, the girls are soon in the local pub, necking shots and getting to know some of the locals more than a little better. Before long, self confessed sex addict Rebecca is snogging a local boy while the other girls lap up the attention around them. Night at an end, the girls lurch home, triumphantly clutching phone numbers and missing their curfew by more than three hours.

The following morning the three girls are summoned to face a furious Gill Harbourd who interrogates them on the antics of their night on the tiles.

A suspiciously demure Rebecca confesses to speaking to a ‘gentleman’ and informs a sceptical Gill Harbord that when he attempted to kiss her she refused his advances.

With years of teaching experience behind her, Gill won’t easily be fooled and resolves to get to the bottom of the matter.

Meanwhile, Becky justifies her morals and actions to the other girls, proving that she still has a lot to learn about becoming a lady: “Yeah I did snog someone but I ain’t gonna tell her that. I don’t feel like I’ve cheapened myself for having a drunken snog. I could have like, gone to the toilets and had a quickie with him but I didn’t do that.”

At the weekly assessments three girls are in the firing line. Forced to explain how they made a cinnamon and apple cake Clara Mayer’s tissue of lies is soon exposed. Victoria Jenkins gets a rollicking for committing the cardinal sin of turning up late – and still drunk – for breakfast at the chalet. And given the opportunity to come clean about what really happened on her trip to the pub Rebecca makes the fatal mistake of telling a half-truth to Gill Harbord, claiming she received nothing more than a peck on the cheek from her rough admirer.