And when did you touch food last?
Yesterday morning?
(Don't say 'S'elp me!' It's not necessary.)" "We last touched food about twelve o'clock to-day.

We had beans and cold bacon," said Frank deliberately.

"We're perfectly willing to pay for shelter and food, if we're obliged.

But, of course, we don't want to." The monk eyed him very keenly indeed a minute or two without speaking.
This seemed a new type.
"Come in and sit down a minute," he said.

"I'll fetch the guest-master." It was a very plain little room in which Frank sat, and seemed designed, on purpose, to furnish no temptation to pilferers.