“Some of those country women,” said Lilith. “I’m afraid she won’t suit Dr. Abbe—he’s dreadfully finicky.”
“Country women generally know how to cook,” returned Polly. “Anyway, it won’t be our lookout if she doesn’t.”
“Maybe it’s the girl he boards with,” suggested Dolly a while later.
“Does he board with a girl?” laughed Polly. The laugh did not sound true.
“No,” answered Dolly, “it’s the girl’s mother that keeps him, but he says the girl makes beautiful things to eat.”
“She’s probably the one,” agreed Lilith.
Polly jumped up and ran to see if the blackberries on the stove were burning.
CHAPTER XXX
THE NEW COOK
IT was nearly four o’clock when Sardis arrived. The family were on the veranda, each curious to see the cook whom the young man was to bring. As he appeared alone at the big birch-tree they gave him scant notice, their eyes passing from him to the place beyond where the new cook would first come into view. They watched in vain.