How am I to make a cake without butter or sugar ? It can not be done -- not cake that is cake . Of course one can make a slab , Mrs. Dr. dear . And we can not even camooflash it with a little icing ! To think that I should have lived to see the day when a government at Ottawa should step into my kitchen and put me on rations ! ' `` Susan would give the last drop of her blood for her ` king and country , ' but to surrender her beloved recipes is a very different and much more serious matter . `` I had letters from Nan and Di too -- or rather notes . They are too busy to write letters , for exams are looming up . They will graduate in Arts this spring . I am evidently to be the dunce of the family . But somehow I never had any hankering for a college course , and even now it does n't appeal to me . I 'm afraid I 'm rather devoid of ambition . There is only one thing I really want to be -- and I do n't know if I 'll be it or not . If not -- I do n't want to be anything . But I sha n't write it down . It is all right to think it ; but , as Cousin Sophia would say , it might be brazen to write it down . `` I will write it down . I wo n't be cowed by the conventions and Cousin Sophia ! I want to be Kenneth Ford 's wife ! There now !
`` I 've just looked XXXXX the glass , and I had n't the sign of a blush on my face .
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