“Are the duets on again this morning?” he inquired.
“No, it isn’t that.”
“Then?”
“Aunt Philomela is at her accounts. She becomes so confused when adding.”
“I sympathize with her.”
“In making up her column,” she explained. “Aunt insists upon putting down what each item is for; then she tries to add the items as well as the figures. Like adding parsnips and butter.”
“They are very good when added in a frying-pan,” he averred.
“But you can’t add them in a column. She only does it towards the end.”
“But your father’s fish,” he reminded her.
“Perhaps you would go alone?”