"I haven't had anything to eat since dinner, and you know she dines at an ungodly hour.

Two o'clock! I didn't know I wanted anything to eat until I escaped from her, but now that I have got _you_," triumphantly, "I feel as hungry as ever I can be." "There is nothing," says the professor, blankly.

His heart seems to stop beating.

The most hospitable and kindly of men, it is terrible to him to have to say this.

Of course Mrs.Mulcahy--who, no doubt, is still in the hall waiting for an explanation, could give him something.