Miss Bell is attending an interview for the position of new Governess for an unruly girl. Interviewed by the stepmother it is made abundantly clear that the woman has very little time for her step daughter and expects her Governess to apply some fairly strict discipline, as demonstrated to devastating effect on Miss Bell herself. Assuming the stepmother slightly batty, Miss Bell goes along with it for the of securing the job but has no intention of carrying out these bizarre rituals on her charge... Her first day with Pandora, Miss Bell decides to tackle her straight on with a sense of humo...

Miss Bell is attending an interview for the position of new Governess for an unruly girl. Interviewed by the stepmother it is made abundantly clear that the woman has very little time for her step daughter and expects her Governess to apply some fairly strict discipline, as demonstrated to devastating effect on Miss Bell herself. Assuming the stepmother slightly batty, Miss Bell goes along with it for the of securing the job but has no intention of carrying out these bizarre rituals on her charge... Her first day with Pandora, Miss Bell decides to tackle her straight on with a sense of humour and not taking the gobby little Madam too seriously. However, even the laid back antipodean Miss Bell has her limits - as Pandora swifty finds out when she continues to challenge her new governess. And Miss Bell fully relaxes her reservations about corporal punishment, for Pandora at least. As Miss Bell cracks the cane with a satisfying thwack across Pandora's stinging bottom, the step-father comes to the schoolroom. Outraged to find some stranger beating his step-daughter, his temper snaps and Miss Bell finds herself quickly upturned before she can explain herself. If only he would listen to what she has to say. After her second dose of the cane in the same day, she finally makes herself heard. Stephen and Miss Bell confront the wicked stepmother and it is not long before Faith is facing the most utterly humiliating and painful 20 minutes of her life as the Governess she spurned and her husband make her pay with the cane she is so keen on using.