"If you put your finger into this jar you may be able to extract a piece of preserved ginger.

Are you a prodigy ?" But the ginger was deep and could not be reached.
"Don't bother," she said, as Miss Allan looked about for some other implement.

"I daresay I shouldn't like preserved ginger." "You've never tried ?" enquired Miss Allan.

"Then I consider that it is your duty to try now.

Why, you may add a new pleasure to life, and as you are still young--" She wondered whether a button-hook would do.