'I—I don't know's I——'
'For breakfast, say! What did you eat this morning for breakfast?'
'Well, I had an orange, and some oatmeal, and——'
'Wait! Stop right there! Wrong at the beginning. I don't doubt you had cream on the oatmeal?'
'Well—milk, sorta.'
'Exactly! Orange and milk! Now really—think that over—orange and milk! Isn't that asking a lot of your stomach, right at the beginning of the day?'
Mr Merchant broke in here.
'Galbraith, for heaven's sake! Don't bulldoze him.'
'But this is important. It's health! We've got to look out for that. Right from the start! Here, Calverly—how old are you?'
'I'm—well—most—twenty-one.'