The food's paid for; and whether you eat it or not makes no difference.

In fact, you may as well." The child looked from his face to the food and back again, wavering; then said, with a little gasp, "Oh, I am so hungry." Tinker took this for a consent, put some aspic of pate de foie gras on her plate, and watched her satisfy her hunger with great pleasure, which was not lessened by the fact that, for all her hunger, she ate with a delicate niceness.

He had feared from her neglected air that her manners had also been neglected.

After the aspic, he carved the breast of the chicken for her, helped her to salad, and mixed the ice water with the _sirop_ to exactly the strength he liked himself; after the chicken, he helped her to meringues, and after the meringues lighted the kirsch of the _poires au kirsch_, which he had chosen because it always pleased him to see the kirsch burn, and ate one of the pears himself, while she ate the others.

When she had finished her little sigh of content warmed his heart.
He put the tray behind the seat, and settled down beside her for a talk.