"Well, well!" says Mr. Robert. "Found something to eat, did you? What's the menu?"
"Smothered potatoes with salt pork, baked beans, hard-tack, and coffee," says Marjorie. "Here it comes."
And, say, maybe that don't sound so thrillin' to you, but to me it listens luscious.
"By Jove!" says Mr. Robert, after he's sampled the layout. "Who's the cook!"
Vee says it was Miss Hampton.
"Wha-a-at?" says he, starin'. "Not really?"
Miss Hampton comes back at him with that quirky smile of hers. "Why the intense surprise?" says she.
"But I didn't dream," says Mr. Robert, "that you ever did anything so—er——"
"Commonplace?"
"Early-Victorian," he corrects.