And you've eaten next to nothing.

Perhaps there is some trouble, something on your mind which is worrying you.

Oh, I _hope_ not!" "No doubt it is the preoccupation of genius," remarked Mrs.Dickens.
"I'm sure it must be that.

When 'C.' is engaged with some particularly trying literary problem he frequently loses all his appetite and does not speak for hours together.

Isn't it so, dear ?" "C.," who was painfully conscious that he might have made a miscue in the matter of the quotation, answered sharply.
"No," he said.