Chapter 38Miss Silver had volunteered to do any shopping that might be required for the Vicarage.
“You will be having your work-party this evening, and that will mean more to do in the house, to say nothing of the cutting-out, at which you are, I am told, most proficient. Your dear mother was just the same. I remember that she won the sewing prize at school. So if there is any little thing I can do for you in the village, I should really enjoy having an object.”
Ruth remembered that they were short of custard powder, and cook had planned to make some of her celebrated cream-custard biscuits.
“She thinks they are wasted on the work-party, but she can’t resist showing them off. Everyone in Greenings has asked for the recipe and been refused. And if Mrs. Alexander has any of her home-made
