The third week at Eggleston Hall began with a shock departure. Kelly, upset by Liz Brewer's comments during the weekly assessment, had fled during the night. This event ushered in a general feeling of anarchy and nothing the staff said or did could calm things down, not even the introduction of a nude male model to the art lesson.
Hoping to encourage competition Gill Harbord invited back former pupil Louise Porter who had been expelled during the previous series for one drunken brawl too many. This did not go down at all well with the girls, who shunned their new classmate. When Rosemary Shrager discovered Louise left alone to clear up the kitchen she went off in search of the rest of the girls and was incensed to find them in their common room drinking from an illicit bottle of wine.
Nicole flew into a rage and later when she had calmed down she went to see Mrs Shrager and told her all about the tragic loss of her two brothers when she was still a child. Since then she had found it hard to love or be loved and was filled with anger. The meeting ended with a hug and with both parties feeling that they now knew the other a little better.
The challenge for this week was for the girls to attend a weekend party at Cliveden (famous for the Profumo affair in the 1960s) where Lady Apsley was hosting a formal reception and dinner, preceded by drinks around the pool with the eligible bachelors.
The pool party was a raucous affair and Neema was particularly badly behaved, but when it came to the champagne reception and formal dinner most of them acquitted themselves well and managed to remain reasonably sober, particularly Holly who was seated next to Lady Apsley and therefore on her best behaviour.
After dinner the teachers rather optimistically left the girls in the library for a nightcap with the bachelors. Oh dear. It did not take long for Louise to fall back into her old ways of drinking and exhibitionism.
At the weekly assessment the staff decided that it was a tough decision because they had serious reservations about two girls, Neema and Louise, but it was Neema who was sent home as she did not have enough potential as a lady.