“All except Delia’s orange,” Laura put in.
“I notice that Mrs. Dore gives her orange juice. And after she has squeezed it, she strains it very carefully.”
“All right, Laura,” Rosie agreed again, at once, “you can attend to the oranges.”
“I think we’d better have prepared breakfast-food this first breakfast,” Maida suggested. “We are bound to make a lot of mistakes in cooking; but we can’t hurt anything that just comes out of a box.”
“Yes, you’re right, Maida,” Rosie agreed. “Now, shall we have an omelette? I know how to cook omelettes. No, I guess we’d better have boiled eggs. They’re the easiest, and I don’t want to make any mistakes the first day if possible.”
“Well that settles breakfast,” Maida declared with satisfaction. “Now what are we going to have for dinner?”
“I’d like to have a fish chowder,” Rosie suggested. “We haven’t had one this summer. Most everybody likes chowder. And then,” she added with a smile, “it’s the only thing I know how to cook.”
“Then we’ll have it, Rosie,” Maida decided.
“I’ll teach you to how to make chowder if you like,” Rosie offered.