 What is significant about the meal Matilda is served?
Matilda got out of bed at seven, tiptoed into the bathroom, showered with a merest wary trickle of water, tiptoed back into her bedroom, dressed in her very best cotton over the finest of uplifting and figure-moulding underthings, made sure her stocking seams were perfectly straight, brushed her suede shoes, admired herself in the mirror, read the ad again, wished for a moment she were a bit younger, and tiptoed downstairs.
 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.