"But you have dinner, don't you?"
"I don't know what you'd call it," said Letitia. "What do you have for dinner?"
"O the boys and Judy Bartholomew and I, we have our dinner at one o' clock."
"Well, what do you have?" said Letitia sharply. "What did you have to-day?"
"We had beefsteak."
"Not all alone, I suppose. What did you have with it?"
"We had oysters," said Matilda unwillingly, "and baked potatoes, and rice, and bananas and oranges."
"There!" exclaimed Letitia. "That's what I call a dinner. What do you suppose Anne and I had?"
"Hush, Letty," said Anne. "Whatever we had, it was our own. We were beholden to nobody for it."
"Have you seen Maria since I have?" Matilda asked, trying to make a diversion.