About the only thing that Scout and her obnoxious Cousin
Francis can agree upon is that Aunt Alexandra is a wonderful cook. After Christmas
dinner, Scout sat down with Francis on the back steps. When Francis told her that
Alexandra was going to teach him how to cook, Scout laughed and explained that she and
Dill were getting married one day, and that she would be doing all the cooking. Francis
already knew about Dill from talking with his grandmother. Francis called Dill "that
little runt," no doubt stirring up Scout's temper. Francis told her that Dill really
didn't have a home and that
"... he just gets passed around from relative to
relative, and Miss Rachel keeps him every
summer."
Scout defended Dill,
of course, but Francis quickly moved on to another subject that only irritated his
cousin even more: Atticus' defense of Tom Robinson.
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