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That was all very well , but the hotel people thoughtfully provided us with a substantial luncheon before we left . Even then Boggley kept on looking to the future . `` Oh , tuck in , '' he said . `` We sha n't get anything more till eight o'clock . '' I did n't feel as if I wanted anything ever again , but I hurriedly gobbled some food , and we raced to the station , then sat in the train half an hour before it started . At the first station we stopped at , the bearer appeared at the carriage window with a breakfast cup of tea and a large `` y-sponge-cake , '' ferreted from no man knows where . He was so pleased with himself that I had n't the heart to refuse it -- so there were three meals that ought to have been spread over the greater part of the day crowded into one morning .