fortunately there was a power cut, so she saw nothing.

Unfortunately the "power cut" turned out have been caused by Emerence flipping the fuse, and she was given a heavy punishment

Fortunately her friends were on hand to plead for leniency on her behalf

Unfortunately Matey was unmoved by their pleas

Fortunately she had run out of sheets that needed sides-to-middling, so they only had to write lines

Unfortunately they were very long lines and had to be written incredibly neatly

Fortunately they had illegal access to Rosalie's very advanced (much ahead of its time!) computer so once they'd written it once they could produce multiple copies, which Matey believed they'd handwritten as she'd never seen what a computer could do!

Unfortunately a bug in the program had produced and unfortunate grammar error which Hilda DID notice

Fortunately it produced a very funny mistake which made her laugh so much that she didn't punish them further.

unfortunately she laughed so hard it gave her hiccups

Fortunately a new Dutch girl recited a rhyme for Hilda to repeat so the hiccups stopped.

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A schoolgirl answered the question 'In what countries are elephants found?'
'Elephants are very large and intelligent animals, and are seldom lost.'

unfortunately it was in Dutch and nobody understood a word

Fortunately not understanding didn't matter because the concentration on the unfamiliar words is what helps the hiccups to go.

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A schoolgirl answered the question 'In what countries are elephants found?'
'Elephants are very large and intelligent animals, and are seldom lost.'

Unfortunately the attack of hiccups caused a sneezing fit, so violent that Hilda lost one of her contact lenses and the secret of why she never needed glasses was revealed

Fortunately as she had turned round, no-one realised what had happened so she could pick it up and hide it

Unfortunately Minette came in, started playing with it and scratched it with her claws.

Fortunately Hilda had spares, so she went to a drawer to get one

Unfortunately her hankies were untidy and Matey saw this.

Fortunately Matey was so distracted by the daintily embroidered limegreen ones that she failed to reprimand Hilda for the state of her handkerchief drawer

Unfortunately the handkerchiefs didn't quite cover up the hip flask hidden beneath them.