"Nice memory,—yours!" drawled Sauce Pan. "Don't you remember they all went over to Aunt Maria Hush's for dinner Saturday night, and for Sunday?"
"Aunt Maria Hush!" roared Tea Kettle. "That's not her name!"
"I'd like to know why not," said Sauce Pan. "Every time I go to say anything when she's here, somebody says, 'Keep still—that's Aunt Maria,—Hush!"
"Ho, ho, ho, hee-hee-hee!" laughed all the Kitchen People.
"That meant, 'Be still,' Goosie," Tea Kettle explained.
When Aunt Maria and Mary Frances came into the kitchen later, the old lady was talking.