"Take half a cupful of tapioca and two cupfuls of water, the juice and a little of the grated rind of half a lemon, and a teaspoonful of sugar. Soak the tapioca in the water for four hours. Stir in the sugar just as you put it all in the double boiler. Cook it for about three-quarters of an hour. You should stir it often and it ought to be perfectly clear when it is done. Stir in the lemon at the last minute and then pour it into cups or molds."
"That sounds good to me. I think I'll try it for our own dessert some day."
"When you make toast always be careful to cut your slices of bread all of the same thickness and to cut off the crusts. Then warm the slices first and afterwards brown them delicately. When you make milk toast butter the slices and sprinkle on a few grains of salt and then pour over them a cupful of boiling milk thickened with half a teaspoonful of flour. Do it carefully. It is care about little things that makes a dish palatable for an invalid, you must remember."
"Della Watkins gave me some flowers to-day, so I shall have one to put on the waiter."
"I want to tell you, dear, why I am especially glad that you are having this opportunity to show that you can put your knowledge into actual practice."
"I did last winter when I made the baskets for Christmas."
"You did wonderfully. You've noticed that I am always advising you to learn things that will be valuable to you. I mean valuable in a money way as well as in giving pleasure to yourself and others."
Dorothy curled up in her mother's lap and made a soft hum of assent.
"The reason I've done that is because I've seen our little stock of money growing smaller and smaller all the time. Last winter I didn't make quite enough at the art store to support us both, and I had to draw on our principal in spite of your doing so splendidly with your baskets."
"But this summer you're all right, aren't you?"