When everything was ready she touched Philip's sleeve.
"Best have something to eat, lad, before you get too hungry," she said.
"Please hurry!" he begged laughingly as he held a plate toward her to be filled.

"I thought I had enough self-restraint to start out alone, but I see I was mistaken.

If you would allow me, just now, I am afraid I should start a fever again.

I never did smell food so good as this.

It's mighty kind of you to take me in.