From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.
Non le davo lezioni, perché per desiderio della signora Fairfax stavo tutto il giorno in dispensa ad aiutar lei e la cuoca, e intanto imparavo a far pasticci e dolci, a preparare la cacciagione e ad accomodare i dolci nei trionfi.