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"The gentle art of cooking in a chafing-dish," discoursed Captain John Rayburn, lightly stirring in a silver basin the ingredients of the cream sauce he was making for the chopped chicken which stood at hand in a bowl, "is one particularly adapted to the really intelligent masculine mind. No noise, no fuss, no worry, no smoke, everything systematic," -- with a practised hand he added the cream little by little to the melted butter and flour -- "business-like and practical. It is a pleasure to contemplate the delicate growth of such a dish as this which I am preparing. It is -- -- "
"You _may_ have thickening enough for all that cream," Celia interrupted, doubtfully, watching her uncle's cookery with an anxious eye.