―I’m melting, he said, as the candle remarked when⁠ ⁠… But hush. Not a word more on that subject. Kinch, wake up. Bread, butter, honey. Haines, come in. The grub is ready. Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts. Where’s the sugar? O, jay, there’s no milk.

Stephen fetched the loaf and the pot of honey and the buttercooler from the locker. Buck Mulligan sat down in a sudden pet.

―What sort of a kip is this? he said. I told her to come after eight.

―We can drink it black, Stephen said. There’s a lemon in the locker.

―O, damn you and your Paris fads, Buck Mulligan said. I want Sandycove milk.

Haines came in from the doorway and said quietly:

―That woman is coming up with the milk.