Scarlet he picked it up, but did not eat it.

For the first time in his life he felt that eating fried chicken held in the fingers was not to be thought of.

He replaced the "drumstick" upon his plate and allowed it to remain there untouched, in spite of a great hunger for it.
Having looked down, he now found difficulty in looking up, but gazed steadily at his plate, and into this limited circle of vision came Milla's delicate and rosy fingers, bearing a gift.

"There," she said in a motherly little voice.

"It's a tomato mayonnaise sandwich and I made it myself.