Chapter 47 of The Sisters of Dorley

Chapter 47: And Just Where Did You Blow in From?
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Book #4	Book 4
Chapter	11
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Date posted	December 14, 2025
Word count	43,871
Points of view	Valérie, Cora, Cally, Frankie, Christine, Trevor, Lorna, Steph, Bethany, Aunt Bea, Tabitha, Dorothy, neutral point-of-view
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Chapter 47: And Just Where Did You Blow in From? is the eleventh and final chapter of the fourth book of the series, and forty-seventh chapter overall.

The chapter contains 41 scenes that take place over Thursday 30 and Friday 31 January, and Saturday 1 February 2020.

The chapter is the second in a row to exceed the minimum standard length for a novel, and was released on Patreon in three separate parts, consisting of the 15 scenes for Thursday 30 January; the 14 scenes for Friday 31 January; and lastly, the 12 scenes for Saturday 1 February 2020.

Plot

• Thursday 30 January 2020

Elle throws a French banquet for Valérie, Trevor, and Cally at the bungalow. Valérie dreams of returning home

Cora spies Alistair looking up cis porn (almost certainly Wednesday evening in US)

Cally tries to convince Elle to take a break. They discuss the worrying psycho washout that is Cora, and returning to Dorley

Frankie brings Oliver chocolate cake for his 25th birthday

Christine meets with the 2019 intake again for more voice-lessons and tries to avoid thinking about her panic attack leaving the Hall for the first time

Frankie plays a game of chess with Ollie, thinking Dorley are amateurs

Trevor is told off by Valérie about his not packing his vials of testosterone, prior to driving back to Almsworth

Cora has a sad time watching Alistair’s futile attempts to get off

Lorna and Vicky arrive with the hope of seeing Steph, and Maria explains there are circumstances behind her being in the basement…

… named Bethany, who is a limpet clinging onto Steph when Maria, Lorna, and Vicky arrive

Bethany eats pizza and discusses trans life with Lorna and Vicky

Bea greets a problem named Elle, and welcome Valérie back

Near midnight, Steph thinks about dealing with going out into the world again as a trans woman

Trevor settles back into his previous room, and ruminates on his mutilations, ending up punching his sheets

Steph and Pippa have hot chocolate in the kitchen while Pippa reassures her

• Friday 31 January 2020

Steph and Bethany wake up on Steph’s last morning in the Hall, and Steph says farewell to her room

Cally and Elle are useless lesbians, sleeping in Edy’s room

Steph says farewell to the basement crew and Leigh melts down badly over height dysphoria

Valérie and Beatrice discuss tucking before Elle shows up, while Val raids the armoire

Steph gets dressed up and leaves the Hall with Abby

Cally gads about the dining hall after Steph’s departure, and meets eyeliner-less Pip

Bethany adapts to the weirdness of being without Steph, badly

Tabitha invites Trevor to the upper basement gym

Cora returns to spy on Alistair Smyth-Farrow for a second evening

Trevor meets Leigh and discovers he really wants to hit things

Steph is shown around the Melissa-Abby-Shahida shared house and her new room for the next seven months, and she starts unpacking the suitcase she’s not taking to London

Tabitha consoles Leigh about her fancying Trevor a little, who is unlikely to reciprocate

Cora impersonates a pizza delivery girl to get into Alistair’s safe house

Bethany and Steph chat privately over Consensus. There are interlopers

• Saturday 1 February 2020

Steph enjoys a pleasant morning in the polycule house as Liss reminisces about the ‘Emily’ party

Cora fucks some life into the sixty-year-old Smyth-Farrow

Tabitha supervises the basement gym

Steph inherits the title of being bad at Kirby and texts with Beth until Christine arrives

Christine and Steph eventually depart after a new German word is coined

Steph receives a text from Russ as she and Christine wait on Almsworth station’s concourse

Christine and Steph take the train, and Christine tries to prevent a spiral

Steph is rudely pushed aside by a commuter at Liverpool Street, hurting her ankle, and Christine looks after her

Dorothy gets a hate message from Henrietta

Christine, having taken Steph across for a coffee, lets her go to the women’s toilets and nothing bad at all happens, like a shrieking TERF melting down and filming Steph when she emerges

Cora phones Haley to arrange collection of a comatose Smyth-Farrow

Stephanie Fucking Riley arrives at her parents’ house.

All books: Overview, Welcome to Dorley Hall, Secrets of Dorley Hall, Enemies of Dorley Hall, Book 4, Book 5

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