Over the girls at Patty 's Place was falling the shadow of April examinations . They were studying hard ; even Phil had settled down to text and notebooks with a doggedness not to be expected of her . `` I 'm going to take the Johnson Scholarship in Mathematics , '' she announced calmly . `` I could take the one in Greek easily , but I 'd rather take the mathematical one because I want to prove to Jonas that I 'm really enormously clever . '' `` Jonas likes you better for your big brown eyes and your crooked smile than for all the brains you carry under your curls , '' said Anne . `` When I was a girl it was n't considered lady-like to know anything about Mathematics , '' said Aunt Jamesina . `` But times have changed . I do n't know that it 's all for the better . Can you cook , Phil ? '' `` No , I never cooked anything in my life except a gingerbread and it was a failure -- flat in the middle and hilly round the edges . You know the kind . But , Aunty , when I begin in good earnest to learn to cook do n't you think the brains that enable me to win a mathematical scholarship will also enable me to learn cooking just as well ? '' `` Maybe , '' said Aunt Jamesina cautiously . `` I am not decrying the higher education of women . My daughter is an M.A. . She can cook , too . But I taught her to cook BEFORE I let a college professor teach her Mathematics . '' In mid-March came a letter from Miss Patty Spofford , saying that she and Miss Maria had decided to remain abroad for another year . `` So you may have Patty 's Place next winter , too , '' she wrote . `` Maria and I are going to run over Egypt .
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