marshmallows. And before Annie Dolan came to teach me how to do things
I nearly died trying. I was all black and blue from falling down the
cellar and scarred and blistered from frying things. But now I know
ever so much.

"I can make two lovely soups and biscuits and apple pie and gravy. And
I know how to clean and stuff a turkey. Only last week Annie taught me
how to make red raspberry and currant jell. And my burns are nearly
all healed except this one. It was pretty bad, but I was ashamed to go
to the doctor's so it's not quite healed yet. That's why I just had to
have gloves to cover the bandage. But nobody else seems to be wearing
elbow gloves so I guess I'll take mine off and be comfortable. Would
you mind putting them in your pocket for me?"

David caught the silken ball she tossed him and carefully tucked it
away. He insisted on seeing the burn but Jocelyn waved him aside,
declaring that her hunger was worse just then.

So they ate and then sat and talked quietly of everything and nothing.
All about them people laughed and chattered. Every now and then some
one called to them and they answered correctly enough, yet knew not
what they had said. For as naturally as all the simple unspoiled
things of God's world find each other, so this sweet, unspoiled little
city girl and the big, unspoiled country boy had found each other. And
a great content possessed them. They did not know as yet what it was
but knew only that the world for them was complete and every hour
perfect that they spent together.

They sat under their tree even after the games and races had begun and
were rather glad that in the excitement over the afternoon's programme