"I'm glad you see the point of your own joke," retorted Kitty. "We have decided to give you a week's notice to get a new place."
"I engage her on the spot," said Knight. "It's all my fault."
"We won't give her a reference," said Kitty.
"You needn't—if you'll just give me food," said Blue Bonnet. "Alec, make room for Knight beside you, will you? We're both starved. Who made the muffins?"
"Guess," said Kitty, relenting and passing her the nearly empty plate.
Sarah intercepted it. "I'll get you some hot ones." And she rose hastily.
Blue Bonnet laughed. "Now I know! Grandmother, did you help Sarah?"
Mrs. Clyde nodded. "The girls came back so hungry I thought we had better not wait for the chief cook. No one knew where you were."
"I'm going to wear a cow-bell after this," Blue Bonnet declared. "Sarah, if I could make such muffins I'd insist upon cooking every meal."
"I reckon you don't need any protection," Knight said in an undertone.