Happily then some meringues attracted his attention; and he stood with a cream cake in one hand and a meringue in the other, taking them alternately or both together.

The meringues began to disappear fast.

Daisy warned him that the only dish of those delicacies in all the entertainment was the one into which he was making such inroads.

Ransom paid her no heed and helped himself to another.
"Ransom, that is not fair," said his sister.

"There are no more but those, and you will have them all gone.