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I reported this to Tish , and I saw that she was uneasy , although she merely remarked that he still had two legs , and that she had not asked him to follow us . All she had set out to do was to see that he did n't get married before he registered , and she was doing that to the best of her ability . The rest was his affair . It was six o'clock by that time , and Tish had had nothing to eat since five in the morning , and none of us had had any luncheon . Although a woman who thinks little or nothing of food , I found her , shortly afterwards , in the pantry , looking into jars . There was nothing , however , except some salt , a little baking powder and a package of dried sage . But Aggie , going to an attic window to look for the policeman , discovered about a quart of flour in a barrel up there , and scraping it out , brought it down .