Summarizer: Chapter 16-18

While doing the waltz hand-in-hand with Pippa, Gemma has a vision and takes Pippa in it. Gemma is in a misty forest and she sees Pippa's face pale, confused, and scared. When they are back from the vision Pippa is on the floor, her eyes fluttering back and her body jerking around. Gemma blames herself, but Mrs. Nightwing tells her the truth is that Pippa suffers from eplilepsy. Pippa is put on bed rest for a few days. Gemma finds out Pippa's family keeps her epilepsy a secret because if people found out no one would want to marry her. This is also why she wants her to marry young before someone finds out that she has it because she will be unwanted.

In the hallways Gemma makes a strange discovery- there is no class portrait for 1871, the year Mary Dowd attended Spence. Mrs. Nightwing tells her it is out of respect for the dead. There was a fire in the East Wing of Spence that killed Sarah Rees-Toome and Mary Dowd. Gemma is in disbelief! In Chapter 17, Brigids tells the girls a little about the fire. When it is just Gemma, Ann, and Felicity they get Brigid to tell them the truth. Brigid has nothing good to say about Mary and Sarah, saying they were wicked girls and that she was sure that the fire was not an accident and neither was the fact that Mrs. Spence was also killed in the fire.