While the other girls are smitten with Pepito, Madeline is irritated by the noise created by the boy riding around on his Vespa, calling him a 'Bad Hat'. Later, the Spanish ambassador purchases the property next door to the school and moves there with his family, including his spoiled son Pepito, who is around Madeline's age. True to her promise, she finds Lady Covington's name and adds her own. A few days later, when Madeline leaves the hospital, she learns that Lady Covington has died. Lady Covington reveals she carved her birth name, Marie Gilbert, into one of the dorm's bed frames and asks Madeline to find out if her name is still there. Unlike her husband, Lady Covington cares deeply for the school and the girls, having attended herself in her youth. During her stay there, Madeline meets and bonds with Lady Covington, the terminally ill wife of the school's board of trustees member, Lord Covington.

One night, Madeline is stricken with appendicitis and taken to the hospital, where she undergoes an appendectomy. Madeline is an orphan, coming from neither family nor money, but maintains a positive, mischievous attitude and is best friends with another girl, Aggie. In 1956 Paris, France, a young girl named Madeline attends a Catholic boarding school, taught by the strict but loving nun Miss Clavel and fed by the passionate French chef Hélène.

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