"That's fine," she says, both about his not eating with her and his having done nothing interestingβand you know, at the time, she really didn't intend to make him eat with her! When they get to the kitchen, though, it feels too strange to make herself something to eat and not him, even if it is just something as small as honey on toast, and so she gives him the slightest hint of a well-meaning guilt trip to get him to have a bite...
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And so a post-lessons tradition is born.