12/29 But let us not talk of ourselves until after dinner. Do you like the cake ?" She had given him a piece as large as his fist, and he bit off the end of it. "Think of it--nothing but bannock, bannock, bannock for two years, and only six ounces of that a day for the last six months! Do you care if I eat the whole of it--the cake, I mean ?" Seriously she began cutting the remainder of the cake into quarters. "But won't you have some boiled tongue with it, a little canned lobster, a pickle--" "Pickles!" he interrupted. |