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fall asleep too early.” Potatoes and corn
were passed to her as she put smallish portions on her plate only to have Brigitte
put more on it. “I don’t eat that much in a week.”
    “Learn to deal with it.” Brigitte
laughed when she did. “I cannot tell you the last time I had better cornbread. It’s
almost like a sweet cake.”
    “Thank you,” Kennedy said, blushing. “I
learned that from my seanmháthair , my grandma. She was a big fan of
cornbread, and I wanted to please her with it. It was on my final at college
and I got extra marks for it.”
    Dinner was a hit if the cleaned platter
and bowls were any indication. The last piece of chicken was wrapped in a paper
towel for “later,” Mrs. Payne said as she wrapped up the last piece of
cornbread as well. Kennedy started to help clear when she was asked to have a
seat.
    “We have one more candidate. She comes
in tomorrow.” Mrs. Payne handed her a sheet of paper, and Kennedy looked down
at it. “Do you know how to make those dishes?”
    “Aye.” Kennedy realized that she’d
slipped, but was looking hard at the list and didn’t care. “There are things on
here that I’ve done before, others I’ve made once, but just a few I’ve never
encountered. It doesn’t mean I canna make them.”
    “I need to make sure that when we
entertain, we’re entertaining with the best possible. I know that you won’t cut
corners when it comes to feeding us, but will you if there are seven hundred
people here?” Kennedy looked at the list again before answering her.
    “You get me the ingredients I ask for
without cutting corners on your end and I won’t either. If you ask me to make
you baked salmon from Alaska, then getting me something off the coast of
Florida won’t do. Understand?” They all three nodded and smiled. “I canna abide
by people moving things in my kitchen either. I put it somewhere, that’s where
I expect to find it when I go back for it. And no one touches my knives.”
    “My mate does that,” Brigitte said with
heat in her voice. “Moves things to suit him when it’s my kitchen. I’ve a mind
to bash his head in at times when he does it. Just last week it took me hours
to find my measuring spoons. We nearly didn’t have dinner because of it.”
    Brigitte nodded as she glared at her
husband. The two of them were the cutest couple she’d ever seen and would bet
her last nickel that he might move things where she didn’t want them just to
see the fight in her eyes. Mrs. Payne pushed a second sheet of paper toward her,
and Kennedy looked at it quickly before looking back at her.
    “We’d like for you to fill this out. It’s
the application we’re saving for the person who gets the job. If the person
tomorrow is the dud I’ve heard he is, then I’d very much like for you to start
as soon as possible.” Kennedy nodded and tried her best to keep the excitement
out of her voice.
    “I’m thinking I’d like to dance a jig,
but I won’t.” She picked up the paper and held it as still as she could. “I’ll
not disappoint you, Mrs. I swear I will give you what I have and then some.”
    “We know that. I just wish I’d not set
up the appointment for tomorrow now. I would love to find out what you’d have
in store for us in the morning for breakfast.”
    Kennedy went back to her camper and emailed
her seanmháthair . There was one from her, and after reading it twice,
Kennedy decided that she’d better take some extra precautions. Her brother had
found out she was in the States. Not where yet, but he would. Pulling the heavy
blanket over her, Kennedy thought of her brother and decided that she might get
herself a ball bat. She’d heard they were very helpful in these sorts of
situations. She just hoped it didn’t come to that.

 
    Chapter 3
     
    The drive took him over nine hours, and
he was now on the last hour of it. Samuel was exhausted and just wanted to
crawl into his bed and sleep for the next five years. He turned the