Run River
“China Mary had baked four cakes and given them as prizes in a parish raffle; when Lily asked her what they were going to use for sugar during the rest of October—during the entire rest of 1944, for that matter, since China Mary had traded some of their November stamps to her sister for extra sugar—China Mary shrugged and continued whistling “Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer.” Good works, Lily wanted her to know, would cut no ice down at the OPA. It was one thing for China Mary to go around ingr...atiating herself with Father Ford; it was quite another to do it with the whole family’s sugar stamps.There were some women in this world, announced China Mary, untying her apron and throwing it at Lily’s feet, a great many women in this world—for example that saint (God rest her) who had been Everett’s and Martha’s and Sarah’s mother—who would count God more important than a little bitty sugar. Thirty years she had worked on this ranch and no McClellan, not one, had ever tried to tell her how to run her kitchen, and there were some spoiled young ladies who were going to be punished by God if they didn’t start thinking about their Church once in a while.MoreLess
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