"I have always thought that every woman ought to be taught cooking," he said musingly.

"We have certainly just had a very good dinner; I must remember to tell Betty how much I enjoyed that savoury." "Did Betty cook it all ?" asked Radmore.
It was Jack who answered, "Yes, of course she did.

Early in the War there was a great shortage of cooks in some of the country hospitals, and so Betty asked a friend of ours to allow her to spend a few weeks in her kitchen.

So now we have the benefit of all she learnt there." Five minutes later the three men stood at the open door of the drawing-room, and at once Radmore saw that Betty was not there.

That was really too bad! What selfish girls her sisters were! Acting on an impulse he could not have analysed, he stepped back into the corridor and walked quickly towards the green baize door which led to the kitchen quarters.