"He may have all that, and yet be starving before your eyes.

There isn't a man, woman, or child, in or about Thorbury, who really lives well--excepting, perhaps, myself." Mrs.Tolbridge smiled.

"I think you do manage to live very well, Miss Panney." "Yes," said the other, "and I'd like to manage to have my friends live well, too.

By the way, did you ever make rum-flake for the doctor when he comes in tired and faint ?" "I never heard of it," replied the other.
"I thought as much," said Miss Panney.

"Well, you take the whites of two eggs and beat them up, and while you are beating you sprinkle rum over the egg, from a pepper caster, which you ought to keep clean to use for this and nothing else.