Chapter 17

All the responsibility was indeed something for Jo to shoulder. She herself thought it would be a far simpler matter with Mrs. Lawson gone, even though Norah knew few of the finer devices of accomplished cookery. Adelaide's breakfast trays, taken up by Mary at ten or eleven o'clock in the morning; her demands for special dishes at luncheon, because of the languid appetite induced by the late breakfast; her afternoon tea service; her orders for trays of rich-filled sandwiches and icy beverages at any hour of the eve…