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`` No , thank you , '' said Bella , but rather regretfully , as her eyes fell on the tarts and sausage-rolls , and the bottles of sweets , and on the glasses of milk labelled ` Penny a glass . ' A glass each would have cost twopence , and that with the buns would amount to sixpence . `` It would be a dreadful lot out of what we 've made , '' thought Bella , and bravely turned away . The smell of the new buns was very enticing to two hungry little people who had had nothing to eat since their seven o'clock breakfast , and they did not dawdle on their way back to the friendly shelter of the church steps . `` Wo n't Charlie and Margery be excited to hear all about it ? '' laughed Bella , as she munched in placid content . `` We ought to take something home to them . ''