Currently reading Rivals, thanks to @Parker231 and the Dropbox, and the thing that is striking me as completely incredible is that, despite everything we hear in this book and others of the Tyrolean books, about the poverty of the locals in winter, a household can suddenly provide bread and milk for seventy schoolgirls and two staff at the drop of a hat the Schenkes are even able to give them extra bread to take with them on their walk back to the Chalet! and even a very poor household in a village up on a remote alm, still has houseroom and milk for 72 sudden visitors!
There are some things I never noticed before when Mademoiselle invites the Saints to come to Protestant Sunday services at the Chalet, as an English clergyman comes down from the Sonnalpe once a month to conduct one, we're told that otherwise the Saints would have had to do what the CS did in the past spend an occasional weekend in Innsbruck and attend a service in one of the hotels there. (Do we ever actually see that before they build their chapel? Why would there be services at a hotel out of season when there would surely be only tiny numbers of Protestants to attend them?)
Also, when the Saints arrive for the service, Mary Burnett meets them, wearing 'Sunday hat, coat and gloves' -- whatever about hats in church, does it not seem strange to put on a coat and gloves to go into a room inside your own school building, even if that's what you would normally wear to go out to church? I know in the Kingscote books there are references to the girls wearing 'chapel capes' with hoods when they attend services in the school chapel.