Read "Queenie's Whim, Volume 2" by Rosa Nouchette Carey online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
"Woman-kind, / Whom all men ought, both young and old, defend with all their / might; / Considering what they do deserve of every living wight. " / _More._
The next week or two passed pleasantly and quickly. The girls / adhered rigidly to their course of self-improvement, despite the / temptation afforded by summer days. During the fresh morning hours / they remained closely shut up in kitchen or pantry, busied in all / sorts of mysteries connected with the culinary art, appearing at the / early dinner with flushed tired faces and slightly dishevelled hair. / All sorts of telegraphic communications passed between them and / Langley. Garth, who was not in the secret, and who was a somewhat / fastidious as well as abstemious man, was a little perplexed by / Susan's vagaries, as he termed them.