"Can you cook ?" "No, ma'am, I can't cook; but I might learn it.

But I didn't mean that.

I thought you'd have a cook, and you'd take me for a table girl, you know; and to tidy up after you." "I do want a waitress; but have you had any experience ?" "No, ma'am," said the girl very earnestly, "I haven't, but I'm just sure I could learn.

If you just tell me a thing once, you needn't ever tell it to me again.

That's something, isn't it ?" "Indeed it is," said Patty, remembering a certain careless waitress at Mrs.Elliott's.