Kidnapped

One day, while my husband was busily at work, I sat beside him reading an old cookery book called The Compleat House-wife: or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion. In the midst of receipts for 'Rabbits, and Chickens mumbled, Pickled Samphire, Skirret Pye, Baked Tansy,' and other forgotten deli-cacies, there were directions for the preparation of several lo-tions for the preservation of beauty.

One of these was so charming that I interrupted my husband to read it aloud. 'Just what I wanted!' he exclaimed; and the receipt for the 'Lily of the Valley Water' was instantly incorporated into Kidnapped.