Chapter 1:

St. Valentine’s Day – February 14th, 1900

Girls are getting ready for the trip to the Hanging Rock

Mrs A. only person who receives no valentine’s day cards

Travelled to rock in coach driven by Mr. Hussey

Chapter 2:

Have a picnic at rock

Watches all stop at 12 o’ clock

Miranda, Marion, Irma and Edith go for a walk around the rock

Mike and Albert see the girls crossing the river, and Mike falls in love with Miranda

Chapter 3:

Edith complains about the walk

Girls except Edith take off their stockings and shoes

They all fall asleep at the monolith

They wake up and then girls (except E) start walking further up the rock, behind the monolith

Edith runs back to the picnic grounds screaming

Chapter 4:

Back at College:

Sara locked in schoolroom to learn ‘The Hesperus’ poem – can’t memorise it

Calling out to older brother ‘Bertie’

Coach supposed to arrive no later than 8, not there – Mrs A. worried

Finally arrives – Mademoiselle faints of exhaustion

We find out: Miss McCraw, Marion, Miranda and Irma are missing at the rock

Chapter 5:

Mrs A. tries to keep the girls quiet about the situation

Edith doesn’t remember anything about what happened at the rock - mysterious

Constable Bumpher leading the investigation, assistant Jim Grant

No sign of them even with help of Aboriginal Australian tracker

Sara devastated

Mike and Albert interviewed

Find out Edith passed Miss McCraw in her underwear

Mrs A. forced to write letters to the parents of the missing girls

Chapter 6:

Mike and Albert friendship – breaking class boundaries

Mike can’t forget about the girls – keeps seeing swans, thinking of Miranda

Bloodhound recalled – found no signs of the girls

Mike decides to go up to the rock alone to find them

Chapter 7:

Mike and Albert go on a trip back to the rock

Mike stays behind to keep searching for the girls, Albert goes home

Fights against the power of the rock to search, calling out for Miranda

Chapter 8:

Albert has trouble sleeping – worried about Mike

Next morning goes out to get him – finds Mike unconscious

Mike taken back to Lake View with Dr. McKenzie

Albert finds Mike’s notebook, follows it to Irma Leopold

Chapter 9:

Irma not returning to the College – Mrs. A stressed

Sara not had tuition paid – Mrs A. threatens her with an orphanage

Mrs Valange – art teacher – feels bad for Sara, argues with Mrs A. and writes Sara a letter

Sara missed Miranda

Chapter 10:

Irma remembers nothing about experience on rock

Irma comes to Lake View

Mademoiselle engaged to Louis

Mike still seeing swans – in love with Miranda

Chapter 11:

Irma falls in love with Mike (her saviour)

Mike abandons Irma – goes on a trip to Northern Queensland and doesn’t say goodbye

Sara dreams of Miranda

Irma realises she was in love with Mike since she first saw him, crossing the creek

Chapter 12:

Irma goes back to Appleyard College to say goodbye before she returns to Europe

Irma sees her classmates in the gymnasium, Sara is strapped to a posture correcting board, they start interrogating her about the events of the rock and start screaming and going crazy. Mademoiselle slaps Edith

Chaos stops with the arrival of Tom

Chapter 13:

Mrs A. becomes increasingly stressed

Reg and Miss Lumley leave the college, they stay in a hotel overnight in Melbourne but it burns down at 3a.m. – they die

Sara has become ill

Chapter 14:

Mike comes back to Lake View for the day and visits Albert

We find out Mike has been dreaming about the rock

Albert is dreaming of his younger sister who he hasn’t seen since the orphanage

Albert gets a letter from Mr. Leopold with a large check and a note to say thank you for saving Irma

Albert decides to come with Mike on his tour of Australia

Chapter 15:

Mrs A. tells Minnie that Sara’s guardian (Mr. Cosgrove) is coming to pick her up and asks to look out for him herself.

Mademoiselle comes to ask about Sara, Mrs A. says Mr. Cosgrove took her home that morning and that she helped pack Sara’s things

Mademoiselle helps clear out her room and notices an unpacked suitcase, and a small portrait of Miranda on the mantelpiece

The portrait was Sara’s most treasured possession – strange she didn’t take it with her

Suspicious, Mademoiselle writes a letter to Constable Bumpher

Mrs A. dreams of leaning over Sara as she begs not to be sent back to the orphanage

Mrs A. gets a letter from Mr. Cosgrove saying he plans to come pick her up on Easter Saturday – suspicious as we know Mrs A. has said she already left the College

Chapter 16:

We see the letter Mademoiselle wrote to Constable Bumpher – suspicions increasing

Mr Whitehead is pruning the hydrangeas when he notices a terrible smell and goes to investigate, finding the body of Sara Waybourne with a crushed head

Mrs Appleyard got dropped off at the police station and then Mr Hussey drove her to a farm near the rock and then she walked to the rock and jumps off, impaling her head on a sharp, jutting rock.

Chapter 17:

Clipping from a Melbourne newspaper, 14th February 1913

The College was destroyed by a bushfire in the summer of 1901

The ‘College mystery’ will forever remain unsolved