Sylvia, we've got to turn out cooks that are worth going to kitchen doors to see! Now, I've taught you this summer how to make currant jelly that you needn't be ashamed of anywhere on earth, and it didn't hurt you any.

A white woman can't learn to cook the way darkies do, just by instinct.

That's a miracle, by the way, that I never heard explained--how these colored women cook as the good ones do--those old-fashioned darkies who take the cook book out of your hand and look at it upside down and grin and say, 'Yes, Miss Sally,' when they can't read a word! You catch a clean, wholesome white girl young enough, and make her understand that her kitchen's a laboratory, and her work something to be proud of, and she'll not have any trouble finding places to work where they won't ask her to clean out the furnace and wash the automobile." The Bassetts had opened their cottage early and Morton Bassett had been at the lake rather more constantly than in previous summers.

Marian was off on a round of visits to the new-found friends that were the fruit of her winter at the capital.

She was much in demand for house parties, and made her engagements, quite independently of her parents, for weeks and fortnights at widely scattered mid-Western resorts.