Madame Svea was not happy with the rate of progress that her contractor was making. He was doing the work slower than she knew he could do it and she knew that it meant more money. She was not ready to spend more than they had agreed so she forced him to hurry up. She did this by going to her kitchen and taking rotten food and crushing it with her boots and forcing him to eat it from the soles of her boots to show how serious she was.