"Done to a turn!" announced Jack, as he jumped down with his pots. "Now, if you folks need any more you will really have to go into active service."
His initiative was followed by the others, and presently the less timid of the guests had put food into pans and taken up their places on the tables to do their cooking, while it seemed that all at once every one "fell to" and procured something to eat.
"Let there be no unbecoming haste!" remarked Walter gently, but it was a great meal, that.
CHAPTER XII
QUEER COBBLERS
"Isn't she disappointing?" remarked Hazel.
"Very," answered Cora.
"To think that she should leave us for a patient!"
"I cannot understand it."
"I have heard that girls not home raised are like that—they have no sentiment."