Hetty is shocked at the brisk way in which baby Hazel Didcott is received from her mother for reception at the orphanage, the more so when she learns Hazel's name will be ...

During a stormy night Hetty entertains her friends with stories of Joseph Twig, whose ghost allegedly haunts the orphanage tower. Next day wealthy Mr and Mrs McCartney ar ...

Kindly Nurse Winterson smuggles a letter from Hetty to Jem but when he arrives unexpectedly at the orphanage he has no news for Hetty regarding her true mother. Vince and ...

Matron suddenly disappears after receiving a mysterious letter, leaving Donald Cranbourne in charge but he is soon visited by his stern vicar father, demanding he leave t ...

The orphans are intrigued when Matron returns and clearly has a secret in the cellar. It turns out to be a wild girl called Blanche, who claims that Matron sold her to a ...

The bullying Blanche Newbould continues to be deliberately rude and threatening to everybody and even Matron seems too scared to punish her though one night Monica finds ...

Explorer Dr Kate Webster comes to the orphanage to give a talk to the boys whilst Lady Asquith's butler Collins gives the girls a test, the winner to go to work with her. ...

Hetty pens an anonymous love letter from Mathias to Harriet, requesting she wears a feather on her dress to acknowledge it but it is accidentally picked up by Matron, who ...

Matron holds a fund-raising art exhibition for the patrons, having locked Hetty in a dark outhouse as a punishment but Hetty is comforted by Ida, who gives her some surpr ...

Hetty is now sure that Ida is her mother but needs to keep it a secret from Matron as, having deposited Hetty at the orphanage, Ida cannot legally reclaim her before her ...