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If I only had books -- now , -- they would help us , -- but where to get them -- or how ? We 'll even go and ask the women , as you advise . '' They all ate together in the little cabin , as was their habit , a meal prepared by Amalia , and carefully set out with all the dishes the cabin afforded : so few that there were not enough to serve all at once , but eked out by wooden blocks , and small lace serviettes taken from Amalia 's store of linen . At noon one day Larry Kildene spoke his anxieties for their welfare , and cleverly managed to make the theme a gay one . `` Where 's the use in adopting a family if you do n't get society out of them ? The question I ask is , when the winter shuts us in , what are we going to do for sport -- work -- what you will ? It 's indoor sport I 'm meaning , for Harry and I have the hunting and providing in the daytime .