Schoolgirl fiction from the 1950s - Colonel Marchmont's twin girls, Freddy and Frances, brought up without a mother, are inseparable imps, always giving trouble, and at last their father comes to a decision which horrifies them. They are to be sent to separate boardings schools, Freddy to Castles School and Frances to Orde School. The reactions of the twins, who soon earn, for amusing reasons, the nicknames of Fearless and Doughy, are most vividly and amusingly described, while the talk and chaff, tiffs and interests of all the characters bring them really to life. Even the schoolmistresses are human beings!