Again the point was conceded; a trial was made of barley soup.

Shooter's Gardens came, looked, smelt, and shook their heads.

'It don't look nice,' was their comment; they would none of it.
For two or three weeks, just at this crisis in the kitchen's fate, Jane Snowdon attended with Miss Lant to help in the dispensing of the decoction.

Jane was made very nervous by the disturbances that went on, but she was able to review the matter at issue in a far more fruitful way than Miss Lant and the other ladies.

Her opinion was not asked, however.