 What is significant about the meal Matilda is served?
The best that could be said for Matilda Penshaws was that she was something of a paradox. This, in itself, was not unusual—but Matilda was so completely wrapped up in the romantic fallacy of her day that she sought a prince charming, a faithful Don Juan, a man who had been everywhere and tasted of every worldly pleasure and who now wanted to sit on a porch and talk about it all to Matilda. The fact that in all probability such a man did not exist disturbed Matilda not in the least. She had been known to say that there are over a billion men in the world, a goodly percentage of whom are eligible bachelors, and that the right one would come along simply because she had been waiting for him. Matilda, you see, had patience. Matilda had received her A.B. from exclusive Ursula Johns College and Radcliff had yielded her Masters degree, yet Matilda was an avid follower of the pen pal columns. She would read them carefully and then read them again, looking for the masculine names which, through a system known only to Matilda, had an affinity to her own. To the gentlemen upon whom these names were affixed, Matilda would write, and she often told her mother, the widow Penshaws, that it was in this way she would find her husband. That particular night, Matilda pulled her battered old sedan into the garage and walked up the walk to the porch. The widow Penshaws was rocking on the glider and Matilda said hello. The first thing the widow Penshaws did was to take Matilda's left hand in her own and examine the next-to-the-last finger. I gave him his ring and said thanks anyway and he smiled politely and said he wished I had told him sooner because his fifteenth college reunion was this weekend and he had already turned down the invitation." Matilda admired her mother's use of the word osmosis, but she found nothing which was not objectionable about being unaware of the impact of love.
 It lends credence to Gorka’s otherworldly claims. How else could it have happened?
 It lends credence to Gorka’s otherworldly claims. How else could it have happened?  She’d been starving, and it was enough to distract her from the reality of what happened to her.  It’s exactly what she wanted to eat, and she didn’t have to ask for it. ,  It means Gorka’s paranoid servant had been observing her, and determined her favorite foods.