Then you should sift in sugar according to taste, and when you have put a dry macaroon, which has been soaking in rum all this time, in the bottom of a glass saucer, you pile the flake over it, and it's ready for him, except that sometimes you put in,--let me see!--a little orange juice, I think, but I've got the recipe there in my scrap-book, and I can find it in a minute." So saying, the old lady threw aside the coverlid, and jumped to the floor with the activity of a cat.
Mrs.Tolbridge burst out laughing.
"I declare, Miss Panney!" she exclaimed, "you have your dress on." "What of that ?" said the old lady, opening a drawer.

"A warm dress is a good thing to wear, at least I have always found it so." "But not with a night-cap," said the other.
"That depends on circumstances," said Miss Panney, turning over the pages of a large scrap-book.
"And shoes," continued Mrs.Tolbridge, laughing again.
"Shoes," cried Miss Panney, pushing out one foot, and looking at it.
"Well, truly, that was an oversight; but here is the recipe;" and without the aid of spectacles, she began to read.

"It's exactly as I told you," she said presently, "except that some people use sponge cake instead of macaroons.

The orange juice depends on individual taste.

Shall I write that out for you, or will you remember it ?" "Oh, I can remember it," said the other; "but tell me, Miss Panney--" "Well, then," said the old lady, "make it for him, and see how he likes it.