“It is the same case with me,” returned Bernard, smiling.
“Bless my soul! How hungry you must be!”
“Don’t you feel hungry, Mr. Penrose?”
“Yes, but my appetite isn’t equal to that of a growing boy. What time is it?”
“I have no watch, Mr. Penrose.”
“Then I will look at my own. It is nine o’clock. Won’t you go down stairs, Bernard, and ask if breakfast is over.”
Bernard returned with the information that the regular breakfast was over, but that a special breakfast for the two guests would be ready in half an hour.
“That will be satisfactory.”
Bernard thought it would be satisfactory to him also, for he felt, to use an expression of his own, “as hungry as a bear.”
It is needless to say that both enjoyed their breakfast.