The meal is as expensive or as simple as we please, though of course everything is vastly cheaper as well as better than it would be prepared at home.

There is actually nothing which our people take more interest in than the perfection of the catering and cooking done for them, and I admit that we are a little vain of the success that has been attained by this branch of the service.

Ah, my dear Mr.West, though other aspects of your civilization were more tragical, I can imagine that none could have been more depressing than the poor dinners you had to eat, that is, all of you who had not great wealth." "You would have found none of us disposed to disagree with you on that point," I said.
The waiter, a fine-looking young fellow, wearing a slightly distinctive uniform, now made his appearance.

I observed him closely, as it was the first time I had been able to study particularly the bearing of one of the enlisted members of the industrial army.

This young man, I knew from what I had been told, must be highly educated, and the equal, socially and in all respects, of those he served.