She sat up, sufficiently recovered to remember that she did not like this man.
"Pray have some if you want it," she said coldly.
He turned his back on it abruptly.

"No, don't tempt me," he said.
"It's a fast day for me.

I'm acquiring virtue, being conspicuously destitute of all other forms of comfort.

Why don't you eat it yourself?
Are you acquiring virtue too ?" He stood looking down at her quizzically, under rapidly flickering eyelids.

She sat silent, wishing with all her heart that he would go away.
Nothing, however, was apparently further from his thoughts.