If I had only known! I wouldn't have failed you for worlds." "I know it, my girl, and though this Lucullus feast does seem out of proportion to a young misses' Tea Club, yet we won't say a word about that now.

We'll just get snow shovels and set to work and clear this table and let Mancy get a simple little dinner as quickly as she can." "But, papa," and here Patty met what was, perhaps, so far, the hardest experience of her life, "I forgot to order anything for dinner at all!" "Why, Patty Fairfield! consider yourself discharged, and I shall suit myself at once with another housekeeperess!" "You are the dearest, best, sweetest father!" she exclaimed.

"How can you be so good-natured and gay when my heart is breaking ?" "Oh, don't let your heart break over such prosaic things as dinners! We'll crawl out of this hole somehow." "But what can we do, papa?
It's after six o'clock, and all the markets are shut up, and there isn't a thing in the house except those horrible things I tried to make." "Patty," said her father, struck by a sudden thought, "to-morrow is Sunday.

Do you mean to say you haven't ordered for over Sunday ?" "No, I haven't," said Patty, aghast at the enormity of her offence.
Mr.Fairfield laughed at the horror-stricken look on his daughter's face.
"I always thought you couldn't keep house," he said, with an air of resignation.

"On Monday I shall advertise for a housekeeper." "Oh, please don't," pleaded Patty.