Chapter Seventeen
In fact, it proved to be Gussie’s unhappy lot to speak to the cook, Lord Werth recollecting that more important matters awaited his attention than wrangling over provender, and his wife too occupied in scolding her son, her husband, and her ancestors to soon turn her attention to the matter.
Gussie did not ordinarily object to arranging the menu, food being a topic of some interest to her. But the conversation with Mrs. Gosling did nothing to brighten Gussie’s morning. And since she had no desire to interrupt Mrs. Gosling’s work while she was at the same time adding to it, she refrained from summoning that harassed woman above-stairs, and descended to the kitchen herself.
‘How many people?’ said the cook, only half attending to Gussie, for the kitchen maid at her elbow
