7 THE PLAN IS AFOOTBreakfast the following morning was the usual bubbly affair. He had no idea where his hosts got their interminable energy from or how they could possibly turn it off at night in order to get to sleep. He was quite lively himself, whenever he was awake, but nothing like these four. He listened as they talked about routine events, and then Jan asked what he wanted to eat.
“Oh, you have all made me feel so welcome, that I am quite capable of getting my own. There is no need to wait on me. I'll get some scrambled egg on toast in a minute”, he said cheerfully, pouring himself a cup of coffee, but no sooner had he finished doing that than a round of buttered toast with scrambled egg on top appeared before him. It was not surprising that they had known how much he liked it, th
