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she turned to ask of her companion . `` I 'm going to get five cents ' worth of hot macaroni and a dill pickle . '' `` Double the order , '' Bobs said , and then she added to the man who stood behind the counter : `` I 'll also take two ham sandwiches and two chocolate eclairs . '' `` Oh , Miss Dolittle , is n't that too much for you to spend at noon ? '' This anxiously from pale , starved-looking little Miss Wiggin . At the Vandergrift table there had always been many courses with a butler to serve , and in her heedless , thoughtless way , Bobs had supposed that everyone , everywhere , had enough to eat . It was a queer little smile that she turned toward her new friend as she replied : `` This being our first lunch together , let 's have a spread . ''