i am very cross with von not because he polished off a great deal of my chocolates, but because once there are that many holes in the box you decide that there is no real point in rationing and you polish off the rest yourself. to be more accurate i had left four in the box so that i wouldn't feel that i had eaten all of them, but my father came and ferried them away, saying he could do with the box for an experiment, thereby justifying his eating of the remaining chocolates. the world is full of unscupulous chocolate pilferers!