INTERROGATIVE MOOD

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13929, 12 June 1909, Page 5

INTERROGATIVE MOOD

Her eyes wandered from me to the room. ''A great many books to dust? "I happen to be a writer," I murmured apologetically. "I'm fond of reading," she observed. "I've had a good education. Being literary I suppose your faddish?" "No— l think not." I said, meoklv "W 7 e live very simply, and 1 am quite a punctual person." "That's a comfort. I'm a good cook, and things spoil by keeping. I' vo "" eight years' character, you know.^ Did most everything for Mrs. Atkins iho continued 1 . "House-kept and all. »n° never knew what she was going to have to eat. All left to me." "Oh!" I said, alarmed for an ndefinite digestion. "But I like to give my orders — myself." "I should not object to that. >o late dinners I hope? I do dislike messing up my kitchen of an evening." "We have slipper at eight o'clock. A light meal. Two courses and a littkfruit. But my daughter often sees to that. She is a great hand at fancy d'shes. She has attended cookco classes." "I know them classes! Spoiling young ladies, and cocking them up with the idea that they know how to make soups and jellies better n6T a professional. I couldn't have no mtcrforanco of that sort !" "I thought it might be a help - sometimes, I said meekly. "Oh, on my evenings out I shouldn't object.