“What did your supper consist of on that night?”
“Tea an’ bread an’ butter and a slice o’ meat. I have a can o’ tea. I leave it on the boiler and it keeps ’ot.”
“You mean that you don’t make your tea separately for each meal? You drink some out of the can at the first meal and finish what is left at the second?”
“That’s right, sir.”
“And the same with food?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Now on the night we’re talking about you had only one meal. You slept through the time of the second. What happened to the tea and food that was left over?”
“We ’ad it for breakfast, my wife an’ I.”
“That is what I wanted to get at. Now did either of you feel sleepy after breakfast?”
A mixture of admiration and wonder showed in the old man’s eyes.