Mam'zelle

Mam'zelle appears in The Twins at St. Clare's. She is the French Mistress there. She has big feet. When the O'Sullivan Twins have their first lessons with Mam'zelle, they have awful marks across their exercise books. As the mistress has written "abominable" across their books, the twins call her "Mam'zelle Abominable" as it is her favourite word to describe awful things. She then confines them to school for a week where the girls are allowed to go into town over the weekend, causing them to be grounded. They are also given extra French prep that night and it is unlucky for the twins as they wanted to go down to town to see a movie or film. They don't do the French prep and they go down to the cinema which is strictly forbidden. Then at night they sneak down from their dormitory (where everybody is sleeping) to the mistresses' common room to see Miss Theobald. Unfortunately for them, Mam'zelle is there and they tell Miss Theobald that they didn't do the French prep they were given and they went down to the cinema after all. Mam'zelle overhears this and tells Miss Theobald that they are very bad girls but is willing to give them an hour's coaching. They accept it and everything is all right in the end. Only Miss Theobald tells them to do their prep in the future and not to come down the corridors marching in their dressing gowns unless it is an emergency.