midday
Gwenda said . Nobody spoke but Alice who was saying that she did n't want her milk . More than a year ago Alice had been ordered milk for her anæmia . She had milk at eleven , milk at her midday dinner , milk for supper , and milk last thing at night . She did not like milk , but she liked being ordered it . Generally she would sit and drink it , in the face of her family , pathetically , with little struggling gulps . She took a half-voluptuous , half-vindictive pleasure in her anæmia .