by the time the kids had been extracted from the car , wiped off , and made to shake hands politely with mr. cameron , roger had come out from the back of the house and was at once drawn into a conversation about his efforts on the chapel , which went on to such an extent that it became obvious that it was supper-time , and it would have been rude not to ask him to stay ... and so brianna found herself scrambling eggs and heating beans and frying potatoes in a sort of daze , thinking of their uninvited guest under the scullery floor , who must be smelling the cooking and dying of hunger-and what on earth were they going to do with him ?