‘Never mind fish.’ But Mrs. Crupp said, Don’t say that; oysters was in, why not them? So THAT was settled. Mrs. Crupp then said what she would recommend would be this. A pair of hot roast fowls — from the pastry-cook’s; a dish of stewed beef, with vegetables — from the pastry-cook’s; two little corner things, as a raised pie and a dish of kidneys — from the pastrycook’s; a tart, and (if I liked) a shape of jelly — from the pastrycook’s.

This, Mrs. Crupp said, would leave her at full liberty to concentrate her mind on the potatoes, and to serve up the cheese and celery as she could wish to see it done.

I acted on Mrs. Crupp’s opinion, and gave the order at the pastry-cook’s myself.