"But I'm not going to let this beat me.

I've been cultivating a friendship with the cook! Don't laugh! I thought it might come in useful some day.

I gave her my blue butterfly brooch (I had two of them!), and I took a snap-shot of her in her Sunday clothes, and she was immensely pleased and flattered.

I haven't developed it yet, by the by, but I will, and print her two copies and mount them.

If that doesn't melt her heart into sparing me a little butter and sugar it ought to.