Eunice Gardiner is at first very quiet, and it is strange that she joins the Brodie set at all. Eventually, though, she amuses her peers and
Miss Brodie herself by doing cartwheels on the carpet. Miss Brodie calls her “‘an Ariel’” (a spirit in Shakespeare’s play
The Tempest). After that, Eunice becomes chatty and continues to entertain, though she is not allowed to do cartwheels on Sundays “for in many ways Miss Brodie was an Edinburgh spinster of the deepest dye.”