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 "Oh!" laughed Louise. "That's it! Can Grace really make bread, Dick?"

"None better. When last seen she was up to her elbows in dough."

"I think that's awfully clever of her," said Nell Sawin. "I wish I could do it. Don't you, May?"

May Burnham, who had received Dick's announcement with surprise, agreed somewhat doubtfully. May had always considered household duties rather below the dignity of one who was so closely related to the wealthy and influential Brents, but, observing that Louise seemed to think Grace Lovering's accomplishment something to be proud of instead of ashamed of, she added, with more enthusiasm: "I think it must be very nice to be able to do things like that"; and secretly wondered whether her own views were mistaken. Certainly, she reflected, none of the others seemed at all shocked by Dick's confession.

Presently they got down to business and Louise, as treasurer, announced the fund now totaled sixty-eight dollars and eighty cents. "And," she added, "I think that's all we can get from the students. We've seen all the girls except one, who is ill, and Dick and Gordon have seen most of the boys."