`` we would n't want the food to spoil , '' she said in a small voice . i rarely get a day off and i want to make the most of it . it was as if she were finally whole , as if something had been missing all her life and she had n't even known it . go there or anywhere else out of reach . and it was these , or so it was claimed , who somehow created the little people . the table was of a different wood than the bench . 