While the girls are sad about Pippa (she has epilepsy), they visit Mother Elena and, when they do, they discover that Sarah-Mary's friend (from the diary)-is wicked too. Then, one day during dance class, Pippa has a seizure. So when Felicity gets the great idea to begin their own Order, Gemma says that Ann must be in too, and since Pippa does whatever Fee (that would be Felicity's nickname) does, the Order is made up of them four of them.Įven though they are all kind of getting along though, Gemma doesn't trust Felicity and Pippa, which is probably wise given how nasty they've been in the past. By chance, Gemma catches Felicity breaking a major rule, which she decides to hold over Felicity's head.

The new art teacher, Miss Moore, tells the girls about a group of witches called the Order. While finding her way out of the chapel (with wine in hand), Gemma is visited by a spirit who leads her to a diary written by a girl named Mary, who writes about having visions and using magic with her friend Sarah. Adding to Gemma's troubles is the fact that a strange man in a cape-named Kartik-follows her into the chapel, and then warns her not have visions any more, which, of course, she has no idea how to do. The down side to all of this is that the cool clique, including Cecily and Elizabeth, invites Gemma to join their group… but only if she'll steal the holy wine from the chapel… and then when she tries to, they lock her inside. One day, Felicity invites Ann to hang out, only to accuse her of stealing her ring (which she hid in Ann's knitting basket)-luckily for Ann, though, Gemma saves the day by figuring out Felicity's nasty plan and beats the mean girl at her own game. Felicity and Pippa are the most popular girls in the upper class and they like to abuse Ann. Later, Gemma's grandmother sends her off to Spence, a finishing school for girls, and Gemma gets a room with a poor student named Ann. Yikes, right? Needless to say, it's super depressing and Gemma feels really guilty. When she wakes up and tries to get back to her mom, she stumbles upon her vision come true. Suddenly Gemma is struck with a strange vision of the future, including her mother killing herself and a demented shadow creature eating a guy (um… things officially just got weird, Shmoopsters). Since Gemma is sixteen, this hard, cold no infuriates her, and she runs away, causing her mother to follow her down an alley. They are arguing because Gemma really wants to go to London, where all the cool kids are, but her mom doesn't care what the other kids are up to she said no and she means it. Gemma Doyle is a regular old teenage girl walking around India with her mom and their maidservant.

A great terrible beauty