cocoa-making

Updated: May 11, 2025

I'd sooner he married a cleaner, steadier sort of gal." Grace Wickens had already departed, her cocoa-making tendencies having lately passed into mania and her successor was an older woman, a widow, who had fallen on evil days. She was a woman of few words, and Joanna wondered a little when one afternoon she said to her rather anxiously: "I'd lik to speak to you, ma'am in private, if you please."

Sheila Kaye-Smith - Joanna Godden