If you'll undertake Olly I'll help put back the lunch things.

Picnics are quite like the Biblical feasts: five loaves and two fishes somehow always make twelve basketfuls to take up." "And you are always a true disciple at the feast, Miss Phebe, intent only upon ministering to others." Phebe laughed her own peculiarly light-hearted, gay laugh.

"That is a much prettier way of putting it than Gerald's.

She says I make myself maid-of-all-work." "Miss Gerald, of course, doesn't approve of such service." "But you do.

So I needn't mind her blame." "But I shall blame too, Miss Phebe, when you overdo yourself.