She halted before Adams, facing him.
He looked plaintive.

"What you want o' me ?" he asked.
For response, she extended the tray toward him with a gesture of indifference; but he still appeared to be puzzled.

"What in the world---- ?" he began, then caught his wife's eye, and had presence of mind enough to take a damp and plastic sandwich from the tray.

"Well, I'll TRY one," he said, but a moment later, as he fulfilled this promise, an expression of intense dislike came upon his features, and he would have returned the sandwich to Gertrude.

However, as she had crossed the room to Mrs.Adams he checked the gesture, and sat helplessly, with the sandwich in his hand.