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Incidentally, in terms of emotion, is anyone else struck by Karen's complete lack of gumption throughout all five of these chapters? From the moment when her response to the knife story is "I've a good mind to take it away altogether" (like depriving someone of a talismanic object that they've literally just risked their life for is something which will make the situation better ) to the desk incident, she's really not very competent at all. Mind you, since we never do see a competent head girl, I think it's just symptomatic of the somewhat dotty Kingscote approach to personal development.