The fat round butter with the daisy on it,

The daisy that he would soon decapitate,

Looked over-salted, but then the bread was always

Doughy and void of flavour.

To-day the crust was black, as if the soot

Had fallen on a country thatch ... the marmalade,

Scotch and well streaked, smiled on in invitation.

“My headache’s better now. We won’t be late.

And Dr. Chitty’s preaching on Divorce.”