33To Molly’s delight, the cantine was packed a full half hour before showtime. Sensibly, everything was meant to be served at room temperature, so there was no worry about keeping food hot. To make things even easier, she decided to charge one rate for an hors d’oeuvres plate consisting of a variety of nibbles, rather than having people pick and choose. At that point, Molly had sampled so many sablés and devils on horseback during the cooking that they no longer looked all that appealing, but the audience was gobbling them up with gusto. Constance was helping serve the plates and running back and forth to peek through the window in the kitchen door as the cantine filled up.
“My God, Molls, I think you may really have hit on something! Everyone and his night nurse is out there!”
“Huh?”
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