jenny had had a bite with marsali and the children but declared herself equal to dealing with an egg , if there might be one , so i sent mrs. figg to see whether there might , and within twenty minutes we were wallowing-in a genteel fashion-in soft-boiled eggs , fried sardines , and-for lack of cake-flapjacks with butter and honey , which jenny had never seen before but took to with the greatest alacrity .