we all go down the stairs into the kitchen where the veil of silence is suddenly lifted and everyone 's talking and laughing and there 's a great banging of pots and pans and hissing of steam and there 's peg standing at the stove working the spatula on a griddle of eggs and bacon and peg turns 'round and points the spatula at me and says , `` this here 's jacky and she 'll be joinin ' our merry band !