![]() Appleyard – declares that “the Rock itself is extremely dangerous and you are therefore forbidden to engage in any tomboy foolishness in the matter of exploration, even on the lower slopes” (7). Of the picnic’s location near some dramatic rock formations, the headmistress of the school – Mrs. Two teachers escort the students: the lively Mademoiselle de Poitiers and the bleak mathematician Miss McCraw, who “would have given a five-pound note to have spent this precious holiday, no matter how fine, shut up in her room with that fascinating new treatise on the Calculus” (6). ![]() At its outset, the students and staff members of Appleyard College are preparing for a picnic, and one gets the sense that this picnic is the most exciting break in the routine that this community has experienced in months. ![]() This novel is set in Australia in the summer of 1900. ![]()
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