He desisted.
When he had eaten all of the steak, except the fat and the gristly tail, and nearly all the potatoes, the waiter took the used dishes away and brought two generous slices of apple pie and set down one before each.

With the pie went a cube of American cream or "rat-trap" cheese.

Warham ate his own pie and cheese; then, as she had not touched hers, he reached for it and ate it also.

Now he was watching the clock and, between liftings of laden fork to his mouth, verifying the clock's opinion of the hour by his own watch.

He called for the bill, paid it, gave the waiter five cents--a concession to the tipping custom of the effete city which, judging by the waiter's expression, might as well not have been made.