She had read that Esquimaux ate tallow, or its equivalent, and prospered famously upon it; but she deferred the candles in favor of the bon-bons, and breakfasted on half the box.
Then she went back to bed and read.

In the afternoon she ate the second half of the bon-bons.
Also in the afternoon she discovered that the bliss of lying abed, which she had thought would be exhaustless, had inexplicably become transmitted into boredom.

And yet she dared not move about, save with a caution that amounted almost to pain; for she had heard Jack and Mary and Mr.Pyecroft pass and re-pass her door, and she knew that any slight noise on her part might result in disastrous betrayal.
Evening drew on.

Bed, and sitting noiseless in one spot, grew more wearisome.

And her stomach began to complain bitterly, for as has been remarked it was a pampered creature and had been long accustomed to being served sumptuously and with deferential promptitude.