One of my students is preparing the dinner there now.

She's a nice girl, and Winona will perhaps like to go and talk to her, unless she prefers to stay here with us." Winona promptly decided in favor of the kitchen, so Miss Carson escorted her there, and introduced her to Miss Heald, a jolly-looking girl of about twenty, who, enveloped in a blue overall pinafore, was putting plates to heat, and inspecting the contents of certain boilerettes and casseroles.

Like the sitting-room the kitchen contained no unnecessary articles.

It was spotlessly clean, and looked very business-like.
"We go on kitchen duty for a week at a time," explained Miss Heald to Winona.

"It's a part of the course, you know.