She would get that dinner.
What if she didn't know how to cook bread and cake and pies and things?
One did not have to cook bread and cake and pies just to get a dinner--meat and potatoes and vegetables! Besides, she _could_ make peach fritters.

She knew she could.

She would show them! And with actually a bit of song on her lips, Billy skipped up-stairs for her ruffled apron and dust-cap--two necessary accompaniments to this dinner-getting, in her opinion.
Billy found the apron and dust-cap with no difficulty; but it took fully ten of her precious minutes to unearth from its obscure hiding-place the blue-and-gold "Bride's Helper" cookbook, one of Aunt Hannah's wedding gifts.
On the way to the kitchen, Billy planned her dinner.

As was natural, perhaps, she chose the things she herself would like to eat.
"I won't attempt anything very elaborate," she said to herself.

"It would be wiser to have something simple, like chicken pie, perhaps.