"Don't forget the soup; we have a vegetable one to-night."
"Then there may possibly be enough beef left for rissoles next time."
"Good girl," said Mary, approvingly, "you are learning, and deserve a reward, and, as George Eliot says 'the reward for work well done is the ability to do more work,' we will pick out a particularly difficult lesson on something for to-morrow," and she laughed over the ungrateful face Dolly made as she went for her marketing hat.
[CHAPTER V]
Vegetables, Salads, Desserts
"After soup and meat I suppose we have dessert," said Dolly, as she hung up her dish-washing apron.
"No, indeed; after soup we have vegetables with the meat, and sometimes salad next, before we come to the dessert. I think those things are difficult to manage, too, especially the vegetables; so sharpen up your wits and let us finish up dinners as soon as possible. I seem to see so much ahead all the time that I am in a constant hurry; there are breakfasts and luncheons, preserves, and entertaining, not to mention about forty more things, each one more interesting than the last. So hurry!"
"Begin," said Dolly, finding her pencil; "I'm all attention."