Pamela (Cat Among the Pigeons)

In the novel Cat Among the Pigeons, Pamela is a pupil at Meadowbank School for Girls. During the school holiday she had been moved to another room at the school, in the far wing "by the apple tree". Shortly after arrival, Pamela had to ask the matron Elspeth Johnson for help because a bottle of hair oil had broken in her case and was oozing all over her things. It may have been an inconvenience but it was the kind of frantic and busy activity which Miss Johnson enjoyed about the opening of term. Pamela's mother came in a Morris Minor with several of Pamela's younger brothers to take her for an outing one Sunday during the term.

This might also be the Pamela that is among one of three giggly girls Adam Goodman reported to his boss that he had made friends with.