"I think it's simply a wonderful idea," Jenny St. Clair reiterated, "only, I can't just see how you are going to feed us all for three whole days, Alexandra."

"Feed you! Dear child, that's the easiest part of it. Lottie adores feeding the hungry. But what bothers me is what I can do to keep you all happy." Alexandra Burke, who had never been called Caroline, took her heels out of the sand and stuck them up in the sunshine. She was so strictly modern and so much up to date that her own personal schedule must have been eons ahead of the time marked on the pretty calendars sent around by M. Helmer, the butcher.