How about it?
When I come back, are you going to give me a dinner cooked by your own fair hands?
Going to still play Bridget ?" Billy laughed and shook her head.
"No; far from it.

Eliza has come back, and her cousin from Vermont is coming as second girl to help her.

But I _could_ cook a dinner for you if I had to now, sir, and it wouldn't be potato-mush and cold lamb," she bragged shamelessly, as there sounded Bertram's peculiar ring, and the click of his key in the lock.
It was the next afternoon that Billy called on Marie.

From Marie's, Billy went to the Annex, which was very near Cyril's new house; and there, in Aunt Hannah's room, she had what she told Bertram afterwards was a perfectly lovely visit.
Aunt Hannah, too, enjoyed the visit very much, though yet there was one thing that disturbed her--the vaguely troubled look in Billy's eyes, which to-day was more apparent than ever.

Not until just before Billy went home did something occur to give Aunt Hannah a possible clue as to what was the meaning of it.